Avviso di seminario - Dip. Scienze Statistiche - Udine

[Tommaso Proietti <proietti@dss.uniud.it>]

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                              AVVISO DI SEMINARIO
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Il giorno martedì 23 febbraio alle ore 16.30, presso la Saletta Conferenze
del Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche dell'Università di Udine, Via
Treppo 18, il prof. GEORGE ALTER (Indiana University) terrà un seminario
dal titolo. 

GENDER AND MORTALITY IN THE 18th AND 19th-CENTURIES: RESULTS FROM THE
EURASIA PROJECT


                                     Abstract

As mortality declined in the twentieth century, female death rates fell
faster than male rates, and the gap between female and male mortality
widened. However, sex differences in mortality in the five EurAsia Project
samples follow a different pattern. Female mortality exceeded male
mortality from late childhood until the end of the reproductive years.
Excess female mortality was common before 1900, and it has been attributed
to several factors: the effects of  childbearing and child-rearing, female
disadvantages in the distribution of food within the households, activity
patterns (such as nursing the sick), and possibly environmental conditions
(such as poor ventilation).

Mortality results from the EurAsia Project make several valuable
contributions to understanding excess female mortality in the past. First,
the sex differential in mortality was remarkably similar across all five
data sets, in spite of the large differences in culture and household
patterns. Second, subsistence crises had greater effects on males than
females in three of the five data sets. Third, deaths directly related to
childbirth were not the most important cause of excess female mortality
during the reproductive years. 
Fourth, the mortality of married women was not adversely affected by the
number of children in the household.  Finally, in the two Asian data sets
there are important differences between girls and boys in the effects of
household composition that are not present in the European data. 

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Tommaso Proietti                   
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche
Università di Udine
Via Treppo 18, 33100 Udine, Italy
Tel. +39 0432 24.9581
Fax  +39 0432 24.9595
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