State of the "life span revolution" between 1980 and 2000

Journal of Development Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 518-526

  Ram, Rati ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergence; Inequality; Life expectancy; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646889333     PISSN: 03043878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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