Luciana Quaranta
Senior lecturer
Scarred for Life. How conditions in early life affect socioeconomic status, reproduction and mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813-1968
Author
Summary, in English
Regarding the impact of prices, higher mortality is observed among exposed landless males in old age, while exposed landless females exhibit lower probabilities of dying in adulthood and old age and experience no significant effects on their socioeconomic status attainment and reproductive health. Regarding the impact of disease, sex-specific effects on mortality are observed in adult ages for those born in years with measles and scarlet fever. However, the effect of exposure to whooping cough on mortality is strong and uniform across individuals of different sexes and socioeconomic status. Females exposed to this disease are also less able to attain high socioeconomic status in adulthood and experience worse reproductive health, providing evidence of transfers across generations. This thesis finds that disease has a more important role than diet in determining the length and quality of life.
Department/s
- Centre for Economic Demography
- Department of Economic History
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund Studies in Economic History
Volume
59
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Lund University (Media-Tryck)
Topic
- Economic History
Keywords
- Early life
- selection and scarring
- diet and disease
- life course
- historical demography
- southern Sweden
- 19th and 20th century
Status
Published
Supervisor
- Tommy Bengtsson
- Dribe Martin
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1400-4860
Defence date
5 June 2013
Defence time
10:15
Defence place
EC3:210
Opponent
- Richard Steckel (Prof. PhD)