Low Fertility, Socioeconomic Development, and Gender Equity
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While new empirical findings and theoretical frameworks provide insight into the interrelations between socioeconomic development, gender equity, and low fertility, puzzling exceptions and outliers in these findings call for a more all-encompassing framework to understand the inter-play between these processes. We argue that the pace and onset of development are two important factors to be cons...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Population and Development Review
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0098-7921
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00065.x