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Roland Pongou

University of Ottawa, Canada and Harvard University, USA
Health and mortality

Missing twins and twin-singleton mortality convergence in Sub-Saharan Africa

March 10, 2021February 3, 2020 Roland Pongou, David Shapiro and Michel Tenikue
Africa, Children, Mortality, twins

Substantial literature documents that twins have higher mortality than singletons, but does not address whether this twin disadvantage eventually disappears, and if so, at what age. Roland Pongou, David Shapiro … Read more

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