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... decline in child mortality has also benefited from the decline in the birth rate dur- ing recent decades — the reason being that fertility decline has involved reductions in higher parity births to older women , which tend to have ...
... decline in child mortality has also benefited from the decline in the birth rate dur- ing recent decades — the reason being that fertility decline has involved reductions in higher parity births to older women , which tend to have ...
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... decline . A fall in the birth rate at the national level is only readily apparent in the 1970s . The age of women at marriage has risen from roughly 15 years in 1951 to over 20 years for women marrying today — an upward trend that ...
... decline . A fall in the birth rate at the national level is only readily apparent in the 1970s . The age of women at marriage has risen from roughly 15 years in 1951 to over 20 years for women marrying today — an upward trend that ...
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... decline is a lagged adjustment to this . To put the matter differently , mortality decline is the remote cause of fertility decline . Other things being equal , fertility might be expected to fall earlier in locations where mortality ...
... decline is a lagged adjustment to this . To put the matter differently , mortality decline is the remote cause of fertility decline . Other things being equal , fertility might be expected to fall earlier in locations where mortality ...
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Demographic Change and its | 19 |
Health Care in Rural | 47 |
Economic Resurgence Lopsided Reform and Jobless Growth | 73 |
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