Disability

The purpose of this study is to investigate how disabilities and the experiences of work and family during early adulthood affected subsequent mortality in past society. As in many other historical demographic studies, this calls for a life course approach and a choice of analysis methods accordingly.

Present-day studies show that impairments jeopardize individuals’ health status. There are also indications that disability makes people more weakly positioned in the labor market than the ‘able’ majority and more likely to live without a partner. …

The aim of this study is to investigate how disabilities and the experiences of work and family during early adulthood affects subsequent mortality in a historical population. To achieve this aim we combine sequence analysis with event history …

In the Skellefteå region in northern Sweden, cousin marriages were common. In 1750 the national prevalence of marriages between first cousins was estimated at 0.2% while in Skellefteå it was 0.34%. In early 19th century the national prevalence was 1% …