Volume 40 - Article 51 | Pages 1501–1528
Parental leave policies and continued childbearing in Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
By Ann-Zofie Duvander , Trude Lappegård, Synøve N. Andersen, Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Gerda Neyer, Ida Viklund
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