How many Americans are alive because of twentieth-century improvements in mortality?

Population and Development Review

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 415-429

  White, Kevin M ^a   Preston, Samuel H ^a  

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HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MORTALITY DECLINE; POPULATION CHANGE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

USA;

EID: 0030441870     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2137714     Document Type: Article

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