Pathways from education to fertility decline: A multi-site comparative study

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1692, 2016, Pages

  Snopkowski, Kristin ^a   Towner, Mary C ^b   Shenk, Mary K ^c   Colleran, Heidi ^d  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

Contraception; Demographic transition; Education; Fertility decline; Mortality; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTRACEPTIVE USE; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; EDUCATION; FERTILITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SURVEY METHOD;

BANGLADESH; BOLIVIA; MATLAB; POLAND [CENTRAL EUROPE];

CONTRACEPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; POLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84961964293     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0156     Document Type: Article

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