Causes and consequences of early-life health.

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Published in Demography on January 01, 2010

Authors

Anne Case1, Christina Paxson

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University, 367 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. accase@Princeton.edu

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