Does education matter? Major league baseball players and longevity

Death Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 653-670

  Kalist, David E ^a   Peng, Yingwei ^b  

^a SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BASEBALL; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPORT; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BASEBALL; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; SPORTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250169792     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: 10917683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07481180701405196     Document Type: Article

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