Lead Water Pipes and Infant Mortality at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  The Journal of human resources

• Publication date

  2008-07-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3368/jhr.43.3.553
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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