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The Inheritance of Longevity in a Flemish Village (18th–20th Century)

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  • Koen Matthijs

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

  • Bart Van de Putte

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

  • Robert Vlietinck

    (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Abstract

The transmission of longevityor post-reproductive survival from parents tooffspring is investigated using data ondemographic and socio-economic characteristicsof the inhabitants of a small Flemish village(Moerzeke) over a period of three hundredyears. This research confirms the possibleexistence of biological mechanisms intransmitting longevity from parent tooffspring. However, this finding can only beobserved for men and women belonging tospecific birth cohorts (mainly those men bornbetween 1821 and 1860 and those women bornbetween 1791 and 1830). Furthermore, thesex-specificity of the transmission, which waspresent in other studies, is not found in thisresearch. Both factors indicate that theimportance of one's biological potential forlongevity can only be realized in specificsocietal conditions.

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  • Koen Matthijs & Bart Van de Putte & Robert Vlietinck, 2002. "The Inheritance of Longevity in a Flemish Village (18th–20th Century)," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 18(1), pages 59-81, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:18:y:2002:i:1:d:10.1023_a:1013891021803
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1013891021803
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    1. Luisa Salaris & Nicola Tedesco & Michel Poulain, 2013. "Familial transmission of human longevity: a population-based study in an inland village of Sardinia (Italy), 1850–2010," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 11(1), pages 325-349.

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