This volume summarizes the major findings of the Princeton European
Fertility Project. The Project, begun in 1963, was a response to the
realization that one of the great social revolutions of the last
century, the remarkable decline in marital fertility in Europe, was
still poorly understood.
Originally published in 1986.
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