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CENTER DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 953
Fertility in Developing Countries
T. Paul Schultz
Yale University
May 2007
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Support from the Rockefeller Foundation for the training and research program on the
family in low income countries at Yale University is acknowledged. Forthcoming in “A
Dictionary of Economics,” 2nd Edition: Palgrave.
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