Education and Health: Redrawing the Preston Curve

Population and Development Review

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 343-361

  Lutz, Wolfgang ^a   Kebede, Endale ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

EID: 85045413493     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/padr.12141     Document Type: Article

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