discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area … economic stress, fertility, and sex ratios at baptism: high-price years were followed by a decline in the number of registered … economic stress, mortality, and sex ratios at death. Using death registers further supports this interpretation, since our …

longevity advantage for the whole century. Unlike most mortality databases of this period, genealogical data allows analysis of … spatial patterns and of the impacts of fertility on longevity. Our results suggest very limited evidence of spatial (state …) variation in these patterns. We do, however, find evidence that the associations between fertility and longevity partially …

that women have historically experienced lower mortality rates than men. In this paper, we study a measure of the gender … gap in mortality rates, we call “Gender Gap Ratio”, across a wide range of ages and for four countries: France, Italy …

Are mortality and life expectancy differences by socioeconomic groups increasing in the United States? Using a unique … by lifetime earnings for the 1983 to 2003 period. The results indicate a consistent increase in mortality differentials … point to almost five decades of increasing differential mortality in the United States. -- Differential mortality ; Life …

Gender inequalities in longevity/mortality are a major area of research since the 1970s. Despite substantial insights … on the question, to which extent socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality for important causes of … aggregated mortality data from Austria both at the community and the district level covering the time period 1969 - 2004. By …

Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the … shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality? (ii) Are … male and female mortality rates determined by different socioeconomic factors and in different shapes? We use aggregated …

Gender inequalities in longevity/mortality are a major area of research since the 1970s. Despite substantial insights … on the question, to which extent socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality for important causes of … aggregated mortality data from Austria both at the community and the district level covering the time period 1969 - 2004. By …

Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the … shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which socioeconomic variables determine the gender gap in mortality? (ii) Are … male and female mortality rates determined by different socioeconomic factors and in different shapes? We use aggregated …