Revising Infant Mortality Rates for the Early 20th Century United States
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JEL classification:
- I19 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Other
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HEA-2017-03-26 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2017-03-26 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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