Demographic Analysis of Aging and Longevity

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 242-247

  Vaupel, James W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

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