Abstract
On the road to maturity, one's parents always have a great degree of influence. Yang Yuying, a young singer, attributes much of her success to her mother Xiong Yonghong. The hard working mother has exerted an imperceptible influence on her daughter's attitude to life with her traditional Chinese virtues.
Highlights
The burden of infant mortality is not shared by all families: some families lose a considerably larger share of children in infancy than others, a phenomenon known as early-life mortality clustering
We have analyzed the intergenerational transmission of infant mortality risk between maternal grandmothers and mothers, using a large dataset from Zeeland, The Netherlands
The aim of this paper was threefold: first, to determine whether there existed intergenerational transmission of mortality risk in Zeeland; second, whether this intergenerational transmission can be explained by socioeconomic characteristics of the family, health of parents, and fast life histories; and third, to assess the advantages and potential disadvantages of conducting comparative research using the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS)
Summary
The burden of infant mortality is not shared by all families: some families lose a considerably larger share of children in infancy than others, a phenomenon known as early-life mortality clustering. In earlier research it has been shown that death clustering has an intergenerational component, as surviving children from high mortality families experience higher mortality among their own infants than individuals who grew up in low mortality families (Lindkvist & Broström, 2006; Vandezande, 2012). As yet, it is unknown how family histories of high infant mortality can be explained. Our third aim is methodological: we use the Intermediate Data Structure (IDS) for our research and reflect on opportunities for comparative research using this format
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