Geronimus, Arline T.; Bound, John; Waidmann, Timothy A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 49 (1999) 12, pp. 1623-1636
We estimate the impact of fertility-timing on the chances that children in poor urban African American communities will have surviving and able-bodied parents until maturity. To do so, we use census and vital statistics data to compute age- and sex-specific rates of mortality and functional...