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High-Risk Childbearing: Fertility and Infant Mortality on the American Frontier

Lee L. Bean · Geraldine P. Mineau · Douglas L. Anderton

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Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes Historical Economic and Social Studies Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

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Historical analyses of demographic phenomena from the past few decades have provided new insights requiring the reassessment of a number of traditional paradigms, such as the venerable demographic transition theory. Fertility studies have dominated this research, but there is a growing interest in the interrelationships of several demographic variables, such as family formation and infant mortality (Knodel and Hermalin 1984; Nault et al. 1990; Potter 1988a; Working Group on the Health Consequences of Contraceptive Use and Controlled Fertility 1989a, 1989b). This article falls into the latter category; in it we investigate the relationship between childbearing (fertility) and infant mortality in the Utah frontier population during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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1992Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America.1991Fatal Years 1978Family and population in nineteenth-century America 1985Birth spacing and fertility limitation: a behavioral analysis of a nineteenth century frontier population 1991Fertility Change on the American Frontier: Adaptation and Innovation.1922United States Life Tables 1890, 1901, 1910, 1901-1910.1980Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century America 1984Effects of birth rank, maternal age, birth interval, and sibship size on infant and child mortality: evidence from 18th and 19th century reproductive histories.

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