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The Supply of Birth Control Methods, Education, and Fertility

Evidence from Romania

Cristian Pop-Eleches
Journal of Human Resources, October 2010, 45 (4) 971-997; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.45.4.971
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