Population Decline in Post‐Conquest America: The Role of Disease
In: Population and development review, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 178-183
ISSN: 1728-4457
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In: Population and development review, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 178-183
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: The journal of economic history, Band 62, Heft 3
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of mathematical sociology, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 299-323
ISSN: 1545-5874
In: Demographic Research, Band 37, S. 1445-1476
ISSN: 1435-9871
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 371-379
ISSN: 1879-193X
In: Population and development review, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 565-581
ISSN: 1728-4457
The 1918 influenza epidemic had a marked and fairly long‐lasting effect on the sex differential in mortality in the United States. After 1918 women lost most of their mortality advantage over men and the female/male gap did not regain its pre‐epidemic level until the 1930s. An analysis of causes of deaths shows a link with tuberculosis. We conjecture the existence of a selection effect, whereby many 1918 influenza deaths were among tuberculous persons, so that tuberculosis death rates dropped in later years, disproportionately among males. Age‐ and sex‐specific data by cause of death corroborate this hypothesis.
In: Contemporary sociology, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 177-179
ISSN: 1939-8638
In: Population and development review, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 57-74
ISSN: 1728-4457
The recent global economic recession has renewed interest in knowing whether a declining economy affects population health. Understanding the extreme case of the Great Depression may inform the current debate as well as theory regarding biological and behavioral adaptations to unwanted economic change. We test the hypothesis, recently suggested in the literature, that period life expectancy at birthimprovedduring the Great Depression. We applied time‐series methods to annual period life expectancy data of the civilian population from eleven European countries. Methods control for trends and other forms of autocorrelation in life expectancy that could induce spurious associations. We cannot reject the null hypothesis that period life expectancy at birth during the Great Depression remained within the interval forecasted from historical values. Additional analyses using an automated, rule‐based methodology also cannot reject the null hypothesis. During the most severe phase of the Great Depression, period life expectancy in eleven European countries generally did not rise above expected levels.
In: Genus: a population journal founded in 1934 by Corrado Gini, Band 75, Heft 1
ISSN: 2035-5556