Changes in world inequality in length of life: 1970-2000

Population and Development Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 499-528

  Edwards, Ryan D ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; NEWBORN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

BIRTH RATE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNATIONALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONGEVITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 80052393884     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00432.x     Document Type: Article

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