Health, childlessness and poverty in Latin American countries

• Auteurs principaux: Ruben Castro (Auteur), Juan Tapia (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Abstract: Recent literature proposes that poverty could lead women to remain childless, thus attenuating or reverting higher fertility typically observed among women of lower schooling level. We explore the role of health in this approach: does health have a distinctive detrimental effect on fertili...