Public health and mortality: What can we learn from the past?

Public Policy and the Distribution of Income

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 359-397

  Costa, Dora L ^a   Kahn, Matthew E ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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