Inherited dimensions of infant mortality. Detecting signs of disproportionate mortality risks in successive generations

Abstract

In an effort to unravel the diffusion and mechanisms of long-term fertility change, there is a growing body of literature on the intergenerational transmission of reproductive behavior. Several reproductive traits have already been studied in an intergenerational dimension, but the impact of infant deaths and their clustering within families on these intergenerational mechanisms of reproduction has been overlooked. This paper explores the continuity of infant deaths between successive generations. Data are from the COR*-database, a longitudinal multigenerational life course dataset covering the larger Antwerp area in the second half of the nineteenth century. We use the family as main unit of analysis, a perspective that proves a useful alternative to that of the individual child.

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