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@ARTICLE{DoblhammerReiter:164801,
author = {Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele},
title = {{D}ifferences in {L}ifespan by {M}onth of {B}irth for the
{U}nited {S}tates: {T}he impact of early life events and
conditions on late life mortality},
journal = {MPIDR Working Paper},
volume = {019},
address = {Rostock},
publisher = {Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research},
reportid = {DZNE-2022-01256},
pages = {48 Pages},
year = {2002},
abstract = {We find significant differences in the mean age at death by
month of birth on the basis of 15 million US death
certificates for the years 1989 to 1997: those born in fall
live about 0.44 of a year longer than those born in spring.
The difference depends on race, region of birth, marital
status, and education: the differences are largest for the
less educated, forthose who have never been married and for
blacks, and the differences are more marked in the South
than in the North. They are only slightly larger for males
than for females. For blacks, the shape of the
month-of-birth pattern is significantly different from that
of whites. We present evidence that this difference is due
to whether one has an urban or arural place of birth. We
find a significant month-of-birth pattern for all major
causes of death including cardiovascular disease, malignant
neoplasms, in particular lung cancer, and other natural
diseases like chronic obstructive lung disease, or
infectious disease. We reject the hypotheses that the
differences in life span by month of birth are caused by
seasonal differences in daylight or by seasonal differences
in temperature. Our results are consistent with the
explanation that seasonal differences in nutrition of the
mother during pregnancy and seasonal differences in the
exposure to infectious disease early in life lead to the
differences in lifespan by month of birth.},
subtyp = {Review Article},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899) / 345 - Population Studies and
Genetics (POF3-345)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-345},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/164801},
}