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Fertility decline and social service access: Reconciling behavioral and medical models

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Weinstein, J. Fertility decline and social service access: Reconciling behavioral and medical models. Studies in Comparative International Development 13, 71–99 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686437

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