Desired Fertility and Number of Children Born Across Time and Space.
Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by family planning efforts) with low levels of unwanted fertility across countries (and hence with little room for family planning efforts to reduce population growth). We study the relat...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 55 - 84 |
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