Volume 32 - Article 58 | Pages 1581–1602
An assessment of recent Iranian fertility trends using parity progression ratios
By Peter McDonald, Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi Shavazi, Arash Rashidian
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