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Unequal mortality during the Spanish Flu

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dc.affiliation.institutoUC3M. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Socialeses
dc.contributor.authorBasco Mascaro, Sergi
dc.contributor.authorDomènech Feliu, Jordi
dc.contributor.authorRoses, Joan R.
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Historia Económica e Institucioneses
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-09T18:18:28Z
dc.date.available2021-02-09T18:18:28Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-09
dc.description.abstractThe outburst of deaths and cases of Covid-19 around the world has renewed the interest to understand the mortality effects of pandemics across regions, occupations, age and gender. The Spanish Flu is the closest pandemic to Covid-19. Mortality rates in Spain were among the largest in today's developed countries. Our research documents a substantial heterogeneity on mortality rates across occupations. The highest mortality was on low-income workers. We also record a rural mortality penalty that reversed the historical urban penalty temporally. The higher capacity of certain social groups to isolate themselves from social contact could explain these mortality differentials. However, adjusting mortality evidence by these two factors, there were still large mortality inter-provincial differences for the same occupation and location, suggesting the existence of a regional component in rates of flu contagion possibly related to climatic differences.en
dc.identifier.issn2341-2542es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/31892
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000001875es
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Papers in Economic Historyen
dc.relation.ispartofseries21-04
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.jelN34
dc.subject.jelJ1
dc.subject.jelI14
dc.subject.otherPandemicsen
dc.subject.otherHealth Inequalityen
dc.subject.otherSocio-Economic Differencesen
dc.subject.otherUrban Penaltyen
dc.titleUnequal mortality during the Spanish Fluen
dc.typeworking paper*
dspace.entity.typePublication
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