Child mortality in rural India

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 601-628

  van der Klaauw, Bas ^a,c,d   Wang, Limin ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Duration analysis; Heterogeneity; Mortality rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751645323     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-009-0290-3     Document Type: Article

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