Is there a trade-off between fertility and longevity? A comparative study of women from three large historical databases accounting for mortality selection Forthcoming American Journal of Human Biology
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1 Population Studies Centre, Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada 2 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada 3 Department of Family and Consumer Studies and Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA 4 Interdisciplinary Research Group on Demography and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Canada 5 Département de démographie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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