Selective Mortality or Growth after Childhood? What Really is Key to Understand the Puzzlingly Tall Adult Heights in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  2010

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  Research Papers in Economics

• Publication date

  2010-06-01

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  Geography, Sociology

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