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  1. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611

    Stanley K. Smith (Professor of Economics and Director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research)

  2. RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 90407

    Peter A. Morrison (Founding Director of the Population Research Center)

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Smith, S.K., Morrison, P.A. (2005). Small-Area and Business Demography. In: Poston, D.L., Micklin, M. (eds) Handbook of Population. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23106-4_26

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