Volume 36 - Article 27 | Pages 759–802
First signs of transition: The parallel decline of early baptism and early mortality in the province of Padua (northeast Italy), 1816‒1870
By Alessandra Minello, Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Guido Alfani
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