Double Trouble: The Burden of Child-rearing and Working on Maternal Mortality.
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- Academic Journal
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- Bucher-Koenen T; ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, University of Mannheim and MEA, L7,1, D-68161, Mannheim, Germany. tabea.bucher-koenen@zew.de.; Farbmacher H; Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Max Planck Society, Amalienstr. 33, D-80799, Munich, Germany.; Guber R; Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Max Planck Society, Amalienstr. 33, D-80799, Munich, Germany.; Vikström J; Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), P.O. Box 513, SE-751, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Publisher: Duke University Press Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0226703 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1533-7790 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00703370 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Demography Subsets: MEDLINE
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- English
We document increased old-age mortality rates among Swedish mothers of twins compared with mothers of singletons, using administrative data on mortality for 1990-2010. We argue that twins are an unplanned shock to fertility in the cohorts of older women considered. Deaths due to lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and heart attacks-all of which are associated with stress during the life course-are significantly increased. Stratifying the sample by education and pension income shows the highest increase in mortality rates among highly educated mothers and those with above-median pension income. These results are consistent with the existence of a double burden on mothers' health resulting from simultaneously child-rearing and working.