Inequality in early life: Social class differences in childhood mortality in southern Sweden, 1815–1967.
This article analyses the long‐term development of social class differences in infant and child mortality in an area of southern Sweden, spanning from the early stages of the mortality transition at the beginning of the nineteenth century, to the late 1960s when both infant and child mortality had r...
| Publicado en: | Economic History Review Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 475 - 503 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2022
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