How does variance in fertility change over the demographic transition?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1692, 2016, Pages

  Hruschka, Daniel J ^a   Burger, Oskar ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Completed fertility; Fertility transition; Negative binomial; Poisson; Variance

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; FERTILITY; HERITABILITY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; POISSON RATIO; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84961872451     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0155     Document Type: Article

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