Marital fertility patterns and nonmarital birth ratios: an integrated approach

Abstract In a 1974 paper, Coale and Trussell described an empirical relationship between the age-specific fertility rate, the marital fertility rate, and the proportion of women with first marriages. However, their key assumption was no nonmarital fertility. This obscures the relationship between no...

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Main Author: Reginald D. Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-02-01
Series:Genus
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-019-0056-z