Shane J Macfarlan, Ryan Schacht, Isabelle Forrest, Abigail Swanson, Cynthia Moses, Thomas McNulty, Katelyn Cowley, Celeste Henrickson
Historical demographic research shows that the factors influencing mortality risk are labile across time and space. This is particularly true for datasets that span societal transitions. Here, we seek to understand how marriage, migration, and the local economy influenced mortality dynamics in a rapidly changing environment characterized by high in-migration and male-biased sex ratios. Mortality records were extracted from a compendium of historical vital records for the Baja California peninsula (Mexico). Our sample consists of 1,201 mortality records spanning AD 1835-1900...
March 14, 2024: Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective