Mortality Clustering in the Family. Fast Life History Trajectories and the Intergenerational Transfer of Infant Death in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Antwerp, Belgium
In this article, we investigate to what degree infant mortality risk was transferred from grandmothers to mothers in the Antwerp district, Belgium, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. We also investigate some of the determinants of infant mortality and explore the role of the fam...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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International Instititute of Social History
2018-03-01
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Series: | Historical Life Course Studies |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10622/23526343-2018-0006?locatt=view:master |