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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