Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves
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- Robert Evans, Jr., 1962. "The Economics of American Negro Slavery," NBER Chapters, in: Aspects of Labor Economics, pages 185-256, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Michael Haines, 1979. "The use of model life tables to estimate mortality for the United States in the late nineteenth century," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 16(2), pages 289-312, May.
- Steckel, Richard H., 1979. "Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 363-380, October.
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