Volume 20 - Article 23 | Pages 559–594  

The correlates of infant and childhood mortality: A theoretical overview and new evidence from the analysis of longitudinal data of the Bejsce (Poland) parish register reconstitution study of the 18th-20th centuries

By Krzysztof Tymicki

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