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Title: Childhood conditions that predict survival to advanced ages among African-Americans

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 1998

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Abstract: This paper investigates the social and economic circumstances of childhood that predict the probability of survival to age 85 among African-Americans. It uses a unique study design in which survivors are linked to their records in U.S. Censuses of 1900 and 1910. A control group of age and race-matched children is drawn from Public Use Samples for these censuses. It concludes that the factors most predictive of survival are farm background, having literate parents, and living in a two-parent household. Results support the interpretation that death risks are positively correlated over the life cycle.

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Authors: Hill, Mark E.; Drevenstedt, Greg L.; Preston, Samuel H.

Periodical (Full): Social Science and Medicine

Issue: 9

Volume: 47

Pages: 1231-1246

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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