Volume 46 - Article 6 | Pages 147–178  

Educational pairings and fertility decline in Brazil: An analysis using cohort fertility

By José Henrique Costa Monteiro da Silva, Everton Emanuel Campos de Lima, Maria Coleta Ferreira Albino de Oliveira

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