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Family Size

Known as: Family Sizes 
National Institutes of Health

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Family Characteristics

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Review
2007
Review
2007
DESIRED FAMILY SIZE, FAMILY PLANNING AND FERTILITY IN ETHIOPIA
Summary. This paper models the proximate determinants of children born to over 13,000 Ethiopian women and of the women’s stated… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Sociocultural and religious influences on the normative contraceptive practices of Latino women in the United States.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Delayed infection, family size and malignant lymphomas
BACKGROUND The annual incidence of non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) is increasing by 3%–4% in different parts of the developed world… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Ideal-family-size and sex-composition preferences among wives and husbands in Nepal.
This study tests the hypothesis that, in Nepal, measures of ideal family size mask an underlying preference for sons, making some… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Trends in family size preferences and contraceptive use in Matlab, Bangladesh.
In the nearly ten years of its existence, the Matlab Family Planning and Health Services Project has been characterized by a… 
Review
1979
Review
1979
Age at menarche, family size, and birth order in athletes at the Montreal Olympic Games, 1976.
Age at menarache, family size, and birth order in 145 athletes at the Montreal Olympic Games, 1976, were determined through… 
Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Age at marriage and completed family size.
From data gathered in the 1965 and 1970 National Fertility Studies, the total intended family size of white, once-married women… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Birth Order, Family Size and School Failure
The effect of birth order on educational outcome in the Netherlands is reported for two major social classes, manual and non… 
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
Molecular aspects of chromatin elimination in Ascaris lumbricoides.
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
Norms for family size in underdeveloped areas
  • R. Freedman
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society of London…
  • 1963
  • Corpus ID: 43621706
It is a commonplace observation that fertility is high in the so-called underdeveloped societies. Sometimes this leads to the… 
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