What Happened During the Baby Boom? New Estimates of Age and Parity: Specific Birth Probabilities for American Women
Working Paper 0023
DOI 10.3386/w0023
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It is the main purpose of this paper to examine in detail the pattern of fertility fluctuations in the United States since the Second World War and to define, with some precision, the questions these patterns raise for students of fertility behavior.
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