Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968
Studies conducted in historical populations and developing countries have evidenced the existence of clustering in infant deaths, which could be related to genetic inheritance, early life exposures, and/or to social and cultural factors such as education, socioeconomic status or parental care. A tra...
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| description | Studies conducted in historical populations and developing countries have evidenced the existence of clustering in infant deaths, which could be related to genetic inheritance, early life exposures, and/or to social and cultural factors such as education, socioeconomic status or parental care. A transmission of death clustering has also been found across generations. This paper is one of five studies that analyses intergenerational transmissions in infant mortality by using a common program to create the dataset for analysis and run the statistical models with data stored in the Intermediate Data Structure. The results of this study show that in five rural parishes in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden, during the years 1740-1968 infant mortality was transmitted across generations. Children whose maternal grandmothers experienced two or more infant deaths had higher risks of dying in infancy. The results remained consistent when restricting the sample only to cases where the grandmother had been observed for her entire reproductive history or when controlling for socioeconomic status. When running sex specific models, significant effects of the number of infant deaths of the grandmother were observed for girls but not for boys. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a7f767d17baa46ec8aa24b632e44744c2025-02-02T05:18:57ZengInternational Institute of Social HistoryHistorical Life Course Studies2352-63432018-12-01788105Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968Luciana Quaranta0Lund UniversityStudies conducted in historical populations and developing countries have evidenced the existence of clustering in infant deaths, which could be related to genetic inheritance, early life exposures, and/or to social and cultural factors such as education, socioeconomic status or parental care. A transmission of death clustering has also been found across generations. This paper is one of five studies that analyses intergenerational transmissions in infant mortality by using a common program to create the dataset for analysis and run the statistical models with data stored in the Intermediate Data Structure. The results of this study show that in five rural parishes in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden, during the years 1740-1968 infant mortality was transmitted across generations. Children whose maternal grandmothers experienced two or more infant deaths had higher risks of dying in infancy. The results remained consistent when restricting the sample only to cases where the grandmother had been observed for her entire reproductive history or when controlling for socioeconomic status. When running sex specific models, significant effects of the number of infant deaths of the grandmother were observed for girls but not for boys.http://hdl.handle.net/10622/23526343-2018-00013?locatt=view:masterInfant mortalityIntergenerational transfersSurvival analysisIntermediate Data StructureSweden |
| spellingShingle | Luciana Quaranta Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968 Historical Life Course Studies Infant mortality Intergenerational transfers Survival analysis Intermediate Data Structure Sweden |
| title | Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968 |
| title_full | Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968 |
| title_fullStr | Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968 |
| title_short | Intergenerational Transfers in Infant Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1740-1968 |
| title_sort | intergenerational transfers in infant mortality in southern sweden 1740 1968 |
| topic | Infant mortality Intergenerational transfers Survival analysis Intermediate Data Structure Sweden |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10622/23526343-2018-00013?locatt=view:master |
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