Kin and birth order effects on male child mortality: three East Asian populations, 1716-1945^.

ABSTRACT: Human child survival depends on adult investment, typically from parents. However, in spite of recent research advances on kin influence and birth order effects on human infant and child mortality, studies that directly examine the interaction of kin context and birth order on sibling differences in child mortality are still rare. Our study supplements this literature with new findings from large-scale individual-level panel data for three East Asian historical populations from northeast China (1789-1909), northeast Japan (1716-1870), and north Taiwan (1906-1945), where preference for sons and first-borns is common. We examine and compare male child mortality risks by presence/absence of co-resident parents, grandparents, and other kin, as well as their interaction effects with birth order

SUBMITTER: Dong H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5542571 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature