Age–Period–Cohort Decomposition of U.S. and Japanese Birth Rates
✍ Scribed by Kosei Fukuda
- Book ID
- 106503151
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 399 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-5923
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