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The impact of breastfeeding patterns on regional differences in infant mortality in Germany, 1910
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-05)
This paper examines the impact of breastfeeding practices on the large regional differences in infant mortality in Germany around 1910. Breastfeeding is strongly negatively associated with infant mortality and remains so ...
Female labour force participation, fertility and public policy in Sweden
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-09)
This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present the central elements in the tax ...
The potential impact of improvements in contraception on fertility and abortion in western countries
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-11)
Survey information on fertility intentions, patterns of contraceptive use, contraceptive failures and abortions is used to develop estimates of unwanted births and of unplanned pregnancies for seven countries, by method ...