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vol. 110 no. 25 10141-10146

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1306656110

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Published in issue June 18, 2013.
Published first May 8, 2013.

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Kenneth W. Wachter^a,^b,¹,
Steven N. Evans^b,^c, and
David Steinsaltz^d

Departments of ^aDemography,
^bStatistics, and
^cMathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2120; and
^dDepartment of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TG, England

Contributed by Kenneth W. Wachter, April 10, 2013 (sent for review January 10, 2013)

Footnotes

↵¹To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: wachter{at}demog.berkeley.edu.

Author contributions: K.W.W., S.N.E., and D.S. designed research, performed research, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
See Commentary on page 10057.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1306656110/-/DCSupplemental.

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Nov 2020	6	39	11
Dec 2020	13	53	5
Total 2020	73	433	99
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Total 2021	2	13	4
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