Barclay, Kieron and Myrskylä, Mikko (2016) Parental age and offspring mortality: negative effects of reproductive aging are outweighed by secular increases in longevity. MPIDR Working Papers (WP-2016-011). Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
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As parental ages at birth continue to rise, concerns about the effects of fertility postponement on offspring are increasing as well. Advanced maternal and paternal ages have been associated with a range of negative health outcomes for offspring, including decreased longevity. The literature, however, has neglected to examine the benefits of being born at a later date. We analyse mortality among 1.9 million Swedish men and women born in 1938-1960, and use a sibling comparison design that accounts for all time invariant factors shared by the siblings. We show that there are no adverse effects of childbearing at advanced maternal ages, and that offspring mortality declines monotonically with advancing paternal age. This positive effect is attributable to the increase in life expectancy over successive birth cohorts, which dominates over individual-level factors that may have negative effects on offspring longevity, such as reproductive ageing.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.demogr.mpg.de |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2017 12:51 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 19:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68829 |
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