The Demographic Promise of Expanded Female Education: Trends in the Age at First Birth in Malawi

Population and Development Review

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 409-438

  Grant, Monica J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDBEARING; EDUCATION POLICY; FEMALE EDUCATION; FERTILITY;

MALAWI;

EID: 84941550593     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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