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What demographers can learn from fruit fly actuarial models and biology

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  • James Carey, 1997. "What demographers can learn from fruit fly actuarial models and biology," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 34(1), pages 17-30, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:demogr:v:34:y:1997:i:1:p:17-30
    DOI: 10.2307/2061657
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    1. Fogel, Robert W, 1994. "Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 84(3), pages 369-395, June.
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    7. Margaret M. Weden & Ryan Andrew Brown, 2007. "Historical and Life Course Timing of the Male Mortality Disadvantage in Europe Epidemiologic Transitions, Evolution, and Behavior," Working Papers WR-498, RAND Corporation.
    8. Vassili N. Novoseltsev & James R. Carey & Janna A. Novoseltseva & Anatoli I. Yashin, 2006. "Individual fecundity dynamically predicts remaining life expectancy in medflies," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2006-043, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

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