title: A death in the family: household structure and mortality in rural Liaoning: life-event and time-series analysis, 1792-1867.
abstract: "Through a discrete-time life-event analysis of triennial household register data from a northeast Chinese village, Daoyi, between 1774 and 1873, we find that an individual's probability of dying, which we treat as an indicator of access to resources and the nature of household roles, was affected by the composition of their coresident kin.... Widows and widowers had higher mortality than the currently married. Orphans had higher mortality than children with at least one parent present. Reflecting the dependence of a wife's status on whether she had produced an heir for her husband, married women in young adulthood and middle age who had at least one son had substantially lower mortality than those without. Reflecting the strength of the claim that elderly males could make on household resources, children with coresident grandfathers had higher mortality than those without.  Even though sons were supposed to be a form of old-age security, however, the death rate of the elderly was not reduced by the presence of sons and grandsons."
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001208:Asia; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D005376:Financial Management; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D008016:Life Change Events; D009026:Mortality; D009826:Old Age Assistance; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012942:Social Sciences; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014933:Women's Rights
keywords: Age Factors; Asia; China; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Demography; Developing Countries; Differential Mortality; Eastern Asia; Economic Factors; Event History Analysis; Family And Household; Family Characteristics; Financial Activities; Historical Demography; Microeconomic Factors; Mortality; Old Age Security; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Resource Allocation; Social Sciences; Socioeconomic Factors; Women's Status