Data and Script from: Reducing childhood mortality extends mothers’ lives

Zipple, Matthew

Data and Script from: Reducing childhood mortality extends mothers’ lives

dc.contributor.author	Zipple, Matthew
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-30T18:48:04Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-30T18:48:04Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description	Please cite as: Matthew Zipple. (2024) Data and Script from: Reducing childhood mortality extends mothers’ lives. [dataset] Cornell University eCommons Repository. https://doi.org/10.7298/1r0d-tc78
dc.description.abstract	During the 20th century, childhood mortality was dramatically reduced globally, falling by more than 90% in the United States and much of Europe. Total fertility also fell, with the combined result that many parents who otherwise would have experienced the loss of a child were spared the trauma and negative health consequences that accompany such a loss. Here I use mathematical modeling to argue that the reduction in the frequency of child death that occurred in the 20th century indirectly led to a substantial reduction in female mortality, resulting in an extension of female lifespan. I estimate that the reduction in maternal bereavement in the US during the 20th century indirectly increased mean female lifespan after age 15 by approximately 1 year. I discuss implications for our understanding of the persistence of the sex gap in longevity and approaches to improving maternal health outcomes in countries that still face high levels of childhood mortality.
dc.description.sponsorship	Cornell University Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (grant # 2109636)
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.7298/1r0d-tc78
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/115152
dc.rights	CC0 1.0 Universal	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subject	Bereavement
dc.subject	Maternal Health
dc.subject	Life Expectancy
dc.title	Data and Script from: Reducing childhood mortality extends mothers’ lives
dc.type	dataset