Fertility decline and the emergence of excess female survival in post-reproductive ages in Italy

Abstract In Italy, at least in the cohorts born up to the beginning of the twentieth century, women’s mortality in post-reproductive ages was influenced by fertility, with large progenies (and, to a lesser extent, childlessness) leading to markedly lower survival chances. This relationship proved st...

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Main Authors: Gianbattista Salinari, Gustavo De Santis, Virginia Zarulli, Cristina Giuliani, Claudio Franceschi, Marco Breschi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-05-01
Series:Genus
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-022-00166-6