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Maria Rita Testa

Ricercatrice presso il Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna Institute of Demography/Austrian Academy of Sciences. I suoi principali interessi scientifici vertono su fecondità, intenzioni riproduttive, famiglia e sistema di genere.
Families and households

The decline of family size ideals and the Great Recession in Europe

February 23, 2021July 13, 2015 Maria Rita Testa
Children, Europe, Family, Fertility, Reproduction

The number of children individuals would like to have, or would have liked to have had, also known as personal ideal family size, has been stable in the EU-15 as … Read more

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