Reply to Trends in Education-Specific Life Expectancy, Data Quality, and Shifting Education Distributions: A Note on Recent Research

Demography

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1215-1219

  Sasson, Isaac ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; RESEARCH; SEX RATIO;

DATA ACCURACY; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; RESEARCH; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85018329863     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0583-1     Document Type: Article

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