Volume 19 - Article 14 | Pages 403–454  

Czech Republic: A rapid transformation of fertility and family behaviour after the collapse of state socialism

By Tomáš Sobotka, Anna Šťastná, Kryštof Zeman, Dana Hamplová, Vladimíra Kantorová

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