Effects of Childhood and Middle-adulthood Family Conditions on Later-life Mortality: Evidence from the Utah Population Database, 1850-2002  

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Smith, Ken R. ; Mineau, Geraldine P. ; Garibotti, Gilda ; Kerber, Richard

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 68 no. 9 (May 2009), page 1649-1658.
Topik: UAS; Early-Life Conditions; Mortality; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Frailty; Life Course; Middle-Adulthood; Conditions

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We examine how key early family circumstances affect mortality risks decades later. Early-life conditions are measured by parental mortality, parental fertility (e.g., offspring sibship size, parental age at offspring birth), religious upbringing, and parental socioeconomic status. Prior to these early-life conditions are familial and genetic factors that affect life span. Accordingly, we consider the role of parental and familial longevity on adult mortality risks. We analyze the large Utah Population Database which contains a vast amount of genealogical and other vital/health data that contain full life histories of individuals and hundreds of their relatives. To control for unobserved heterogeneity, we analyze sib-pair data for 12,000 sib-pairs using frailty models. We found modest effects of key childhood conditions (birth order, sibship size, parental religiosity, parental SES, and parental death in childhood). Our measures of familial aggregation of longevity were large and suggest an alternative view of early-life conditions.

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