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What Happened During the Baby Boom? New Estimates of Age and Parity: Specific Birth Probabilities for American Women

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It is the main purpose of this paper to examine in detail the pattern of fertility fluctuations in the United States since the Second World War and to define, with some precision, the questions these patterns raise for students of fertility behavior.

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  • Warren C. Sanderson, 1973. "What Happened During the Baby Boom? New Estimates of Age and Parity: Specific Birth Probabilities for American Women," NBER Working Papers 0023, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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