Volume 42 - Article 11 | Pages 343–382
The persistent southern disadvantage in US early life mortality, 1965‒2014
By Nathan T. Dollar, Iliya Gutin, Elizabeth M. Lawrence, David B. Braudt, Samuel Fishman, Richard G. Rogers, Robert A. Hummer
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