Mortality responses to rice price fluctuations and household factors in a farming village in central Tokugawa Japan

History of the Family

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-31

  Tsuya, Noriko O ^a   Hamano, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ukyo ku   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrete time event history analysis; Household factors; Mortality; Rice price; Tokugawa Japan

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROP; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; HISTORY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOUSEHOLD; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CENSUSES; COMMERCE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DEATH; FAMILY; FOOD SUPPLY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; HOUSEKEEPING; JAPAN; MORTALITY; ORYZA SATIVA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0041369935     PISSN: 1081602X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-602X(01)00062-8     Document Type: Article

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