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Analysis of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Marital Fertility

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Cohort Analysis in Social Research

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Biological factors in the age pattern of fecundity and cultural universals in the age pattern of fertility control result in uniformities in schedules of age-specific marital fertility across diverse human populations. Yet the fertility of married women at a given age depends not only upon age but also upon the previous experience of the cohort (cohort effect) and the social and economic conditions of the time (period effect).

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Johnson, R.A. (1985). Analysis of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Marital Fertility. In: Mason, W.M., Fienberg, S.E. (eds) Cohort Analysis in Social Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8536-3_7

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