A Micro Analysis of the Infant Mortality Decline in an Italian Sharecropping Community from 1900 to 1939

In the first decades of the twentieth century, an evident reduction of the infant mortality rate occurred in Italy. In previous studies, less attention has been devoted to the effects of individual bio-demographic and socioeconomic components on infant mortality. We use micro data from births, death...

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Main Authors: Francesco Scalone, Patrizia Agati, Aurora Angeli, Annalisa Donno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athens Institute for Education and Research 2016-01-01
Series:Athens Journal of History
Online Access:https://www.athensjournals.gr/history/2016-2-1-2-Scalone.pdf