Mortality Clustering in the Family. Fast Life History Trajectories and the Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Death in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Antwerp, Belgium

Mortality Clustering in the Family. Fast Life History Trajectories and the Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Death in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Antwerp, Belgium

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In this article, we investigate to what degree infant mortality risk was transferred from grandmothers to mothers in the Antwerp district, Belgium, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. We also investigate some of the determinants of infant mortality and explore the role of the fam...

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Main Authors: Robyn Donrovich, Paul Puschmann, Koen Matthijs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Instititute of Social History 2018-03-01
Series:Historical Life Course Studies
Subjects:
Antwerp
Life history theory
Intergenerational transfer
Family factors
Infant mortality clustering
Online Access:https://www.openjournals.nl/index.php/hlcs/article/view/9285

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