In search of the ?urban penalty?: explor
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Reher, David S.
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Making use of data on age‐specific mortality and cause of death patterns for rural and urban areas of Spain during the first third of the twentieth‐century, this paper explores the meaning of the ‘urban penalty’ and how it changed over the course of the demographic transition. The autho