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Mortality Peaks in Italy in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Trends by Age and Sex

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  • Antonella Pinnelli

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Demografiche via Nomentana)

  • Paola Mancini

    (Dipartimento di Scienze Demografiche via Nomentana)

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Infant and youth mortality fell steeply between the Unification of Italy and the 1930s, particularly due to the decline in infectious and parasitic diseases. A number of mortality crises, however, at times halted this decline: the 1908 Calabria-Sicily earthquake, the 1915 Marsica earthquake, World War I and 1918 Spanish INFLUENZA outbreak. This paper focuses as the repercussions of these events on the general survival status of young people from birth to puberty, as well as the main pathologies responsible for the rise in mortality. An analysis of differences in mortality according to sex during the various crises was also performed to ascertain whether the more difficult survival conditions during these periods affected males and females equally.

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  • Antonella Pinnelli & Paola Mancini, 1998. "Mortality Peaks in Italy in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: Trends by Age and Sex," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 14(4), pages 333-365, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:14:y:1998:i:4:d:10.1023_a:1006182029835
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1006182029835
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    2. Enrico Berbenni & Stefano Colombo, 2021. "The impact of pandemics: revising the Spanish Flu in Italy in light of models’ predictions, and some lessons for the Covid-19 pandemic," Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Springer;Associazione Amici di Economia e Politica Industriale, vol. 48(2), pages 219-243, June.
    3. Luque de Haro, Víctor A. & Pujadas-Mora, Joana M. & García-Gómez, José J., 2021. "Inequality in mortality in pre-industrial southern Europe during an epidemic episode: socio-economic determinants (eighteenth - nineteenth centuries Spain)," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 40(C).
    4. Jappelli, Tullio & Carillo, Mario Francesco, 2020. "Pandemics and Local Economic Growth: Evidence from the Great Influenza in Italy," CEPR Discussion Papers 14849, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

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