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Lädt ... Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century Americavon Samuel H. Preston
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Fatal Years is the first systematic study of child mortality in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Exploiting newly discovered data from the 1900 Census of Population, Samuel Preston and Michael Haines present their findings in a volume that is not only a pioneering work of demography but also an accessible and moving historical narrative. Despite having a rich, well-fed, and highly literate population, the United States had exceptionally high child-mortality levels during this period: nearly one out of every five children died before the age of five. Preston and Haines challenge accepted opinion to show that losses in privileged social groups were as appalling as those among lower classes. Improvements came only with better knowledge about infectious diseases and greater public efforts to limit their spread. The authors look at a wide range of topics, including differences in mortality in urban versus rural areas and the differences in child mortality among various immigration groups. "Fatal Years is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of child mortality in the United States at the turn of the century. The new data and its analysis force everyone to reconsider previous work and statements about U.S. mortality in that period. The book will quickly become a standard in the field."--Maris A. Vinovskis, University of MichiganOriginally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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There were sentences like: All three variables remain highly significant after accounting for degrees of freedom, but the multicategory size-of-place and region-of-residence variables are surpassed in F-ratios by more than parsimonious variables.
And: Weighting by number of children ever born also reduces the problem of heteroskedasticity, the tendency for larger variance to be associated with units containing further observations, a tendency that violates the assumptions of ordinary least squares regression.
Yeah. I have no idea what that means.
From what I could decipher, the authors puzzled over why the US had such a high child mortality rate when it was so prosperous. They analyzed things like whether the parents were immigrants and what county they came from, how long they breast-fed, whether or not the parents were literate, etc -- stuff I would never have considered. It was actually quite interesting, which is why I finished the book in spite of the fact that I could barely understand it. If you're willing to wade through all the scary numbers, this book is worth reading. (