Educational differences in early childbearing
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Educational differences in early childbearing: A cross-national comparative study
BACKGROUND Recent research on fertility in industrialized countries focuses primarily on delayed childbearing, despite the facts that large numbers of women continue to enter parenthood at relatively young ages and that early childbearing has been linked to economic disadvantage. OBJECTIVE This cross-national comparative study describes relationships between women’s educational attainment and y...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demographic Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2015.33.3