Correlates of infant and childhood mortality: A theoretical overview and new evidence from the analysis of longitudinal data of the Bejsce (Poland) parish register reconstitution study of the 18th-20th centuries

Demographic Research

Volumn 20, Issue , 2009, Pages 559-594

  Tymicki, Krzysztof ^a  

^a WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

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EID: 66249132723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.20.23     Document Type: Review

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