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Convergence or Divergence? Life Expectancy Patterns in post-Communist countries, 1959-2010
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union experienced an unanticipated stagnation in the process of mortality reduction that was accelerating in the west. This was followed by even starker fluctuations and overall declines in life expectancy during the 1980s and 1990s. We identify statistically the extent to which, since the 1990s, the countries of the post-communist region have converged as a group towards other regional or cross-regional geopol...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s11205-017-1764-4
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- Publisher:
- Springer Verlag Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Social Indicators Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 140
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 309–332
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-25
- DOI:
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1573-0921
- ISSN:
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0303-8300
- Source identifiers:
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734972
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- English
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pubs:734972
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- pubs:734972
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- 2017-10-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Gerry, Raskina and Tsyplakova
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2017. This is an open access article published under a creative commons licence, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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