Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines
Subtitle: evidence from Union Army veterans
By: Dora L. Costa.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- no. 8000; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 8000.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Life expectancy -- United States -- History.; Older men -- United States -- Mortality -- History.; Older men -- Health and hygiene -- United States -- History.; Public health -- United States -- History.; Industrialization -- Health aspects -- United States -- History.
Notes: "November 2000."

JEL no. Ji, I1, N3.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-27).

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