Infant mortality -ancient world

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Walter Scheidel has published greater number of articles and book chapters dealing with Roman demography in the last 10 years. Many available freely as Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics. For me they were a good up to date introduction to the topic. He discuses in some detail the drawbacks various approaches to determine the Roman age structure like using UN model live tables, inscriptions from tombstones or the Egyptian census figures.

http://www.stanford.edu/~scheidel/pub.htm