Tommy Bengtsson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 271162 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tommy Bengtsson |
| PRENOMES | Tommy |
| SOBRENOME | Bengtsson |
| ASSINATURA | BENGTSSON T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1113-8761 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 346 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Inequality, economic stress, and demographic response
The escape from hunger
This study analyses how the standard of living for different social groups changed when Sweden developed from an agricultural to an industrial society and when the first steps towards a modern welfare society were taken. As a measure of living standards, we use the ability to overcome short-term economic stress caused by high food prices. We use individual-level longitudinal data from 1813 to 1967 for a rural/semi-urban area in southern Sweden wi…
The Long Road to Health and Prosperity, Southern Sweden, 1765-2015. Research Contributions From the Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (Sedd)
The Scanian Economic-Demographic Database (SEDD) at the Centre for Economic Demography (CED), Lund University was built to answer questions derived from previous research using macro data from 1749 onwards. It includes longitudinal micro data for a regional sample of rural, semi-urban, and urban parishes in southern Sweden from 1646 to 1968 for approximately 175,000 individuals. In addition to the data on births, deaths, marriages, and occupation…
When Did the Health Gradient Emerge? Social Class and Adult Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813–2015
Across today’s developed world, there is a clear mortality gradient by socioeconomic status for all ages. It is often taken for granted that this gradient was as strong—or even stronger—in the past when social transfers were rudimentary and health care systems were less developed. Some studies based on cross-sectional data have supported this view, but others based on longitudinal data found that this was not the case. If there was no gradient in…
The long-term economic effects of polio
The Long-Lasting Influenza
The 1918 influenza pandemic had not only a massive instant death toll but also lasting effects on its survivors. Several studies have shown that children born in 1919, and thus exposed to the H1N1 virus in utero, experienced worse health and socioeconomic outcomes in older ages than surrounding birth cohorts. This study combines several sources of contemporary statistics with full-population individual-level data for Sweden during 1968–2012 to ex…
Smoking and early retirement due to chronic disability
LauraSpinneyPale Rider
While the 1918 influenza pandemic was initially of interest mainly to epidemiologists, virologists, and medical historians, now economists, sociologists, psychologists, and many other scientists are analysing its causes and consequences. One of the scientists that brought attention to it already in 1989 was the historian Alfred Crosby with his book America's Forgotten Pandemic. Since then, a huge number of academic papers and books have been writ…
Inequality and demographic response to short-term economic stress in North Orkney, Scotland, 1855–1910
We examine economic inequality and social differences in infant and child mortality, and fertility responses to food price changes in North Orkney, 1855-1910, using linked vital records. This small population featured a diverse occupational structure, limited land resources, and geographic isolation from mainland Scotland. Segments of Orkney's non-agricultural working population were living so close to the margin of subsistence in normal years th…
Unequal lands
Child mortality differed greatly within rural regions in Europe before and during the mortality transition. Little is known about the role of nutrition in such geographic differences, and about the factors affecting the nutritional status and hence the dis
Fighting Infectious Disease
Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article
Mortality
Pathways to Health and Well-being
The historical fertility transition at the micro level
We know a great deal about the historical fertility transition at the macro level. The dominating focus on the macro level in previous research on the fertility transition means, however, that to a large extent we lack knowledge about details of the declin
The late emergence of socioeconomic mortality differentials
Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present
Population Aging and the Future of the Welfare State
Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?
Population Ageing - a Threat to the Welfare State?
Quantifying the Family Frailty Effect in Infant and Child Mortality by Using Median Hazard Ratio (MHR)
Most microlevel studies in the social sciences have focused on the impact of different measured variables. While some studies have also dealt with unobserved variation, it has usually only been controlled for to perfect the estimates of the observables. In this article, the authors applied a modified version of a recently developed method designed to quantify the effect of unobserved variation in continuous time multilevel models, called a median…
Life under Pressure
Early-life effects on socio-economic performance and mortality in later life
Do conditions in early life affect old-age mortality directly and indirectly? Evidence from 19th-century rural Sweden
Deliberate control in a natural fertility population
In this article, we analyze fertility control in a rural population characterized by natural fertility, using survival analysis on a longitudinal data set at the individual level combined with food prices. Landless and semilandless families responded strongly to short-term economic stress stemming from changes in prices. The fertility response, both to moderate and large changes in food prices, was the strongest within six months after prices cha…
Histoire des populations et histoire des savoirs demographiques
Childhood misery and disease in later life
This paper assesses the importance of early-life conditions relative to the prevailing conditions for mortality by cause of death in later life using historical data for four rural parishes in southern Sweden for which both demographic and economic data are very good. Longitudinal demographic data for individuals are combined with household socio-economic data and community data on food costs and the disease load using a Cox regression framework.…
Deliberate control in a natural fertility population
In this article, we analyze fertility control in a rural population characterized by natural fertility, using survival analysis on a longitudinal data set at the individual level combined with food prices. Landless and semilandless families responded strongly to short-term economic stress stemming from changes in prices. The fertility response, both to moderate and large changes in food prices, was the strongest within six months after prices cha…
Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present
Do conditions in early life affect old-age mortality directly and indirectly? Evidence from 19th-century rural Sweden
The late emergence of socioeconomic mortality differentials
Age-specific mortality and short-term changes in the standard of living
Early-life effects on socio-economic performance and mortality in later life
When Did the Health Gradient Emerge? Social Class and Adult Mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813–2015
Across today’s developed world, there is a clear mortality gradient by socioeconomic status for all ages. It is often taken for granted that this gradient was as strong—or even stronger—in the past when social transfers were rudimentary and health care systems were less developed. Some studies based on cross-sectional data have supported this view, but others based on longitudinal data found that this was not the case. If there was no gradient in…
The Vulnerable Child. Economic Insecurity and Child Mortality in Pre-Industrial Sweden
The historical fertility transition at the micro level
We know a great deal about the historical fertility transition at the macro level. The dominating focus on the macro level in previous research on the fertility transition means, however, that to a large extent we lack knowledge about details of the declin
Quantifying the Family Frailty Effect in Infant and Child Mortality by Using Median Hazard Ratio (MHR)
Most microlevel studies in the social sciences have focused on the impact of different measured variables. While some studies have also dealt with unobserved variation, it has usually only been controlled for to perfect the estimates of the observables. In this article, the authors applied a modified version of a recently developed method designed to quantify the effect of unobserved variation in continuous time multilevel models, called a median…
Inequality and demographic response to short-term economic stress in North Orkney, Scotland, 1855–1910
We examine economic inequality and social differences in infant and child mortality, and fertility responses to food price changes in North Orkney, 1855-1910, using linked vital records. This small population featured a diverse occupational structure, limited land resources, and geographic isolation from mainland Scotland. Segments of Orkney's non-agricultural working population were living so close to the margin of subsistence in normal years th…
Population Aging and the Future of the Welfare State
The Long-Lasting Influenza
The 1918 influenza pandemic had not only a massive instant death toll but also lasting effects on its survivors. Several studies have shown that children born in 1919, and thus exposed to the H1N1 virus in utero, experienced worse health and socioeconomic outcomes in older ages than surrounding birth cohorts. This study combines several sources of contemporary statistics with full-population individual-level data for Sweden during 1968–2012 to ex…
Fighting Infectious Disease
Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article
Pathways to Health and Well-being
The escape from hunger
This study analyses how the standard of living for different social groups changed when Sweden developed from an agricultural to an industrial society and when the first steps towards a modern welfare society were taken. As a measure of living standards, we use the ability to overcome short-term economic stress caused by high food prices. We use individual-level longitudinal data from 1813 to 1967 for a rural/semi-urban area in southern Sweden wi…
Unequal lands
Child mortality differed greatly within rural regions in Europe before and during the mortality transition. Little is known about the role of nutrition in such geographic differences, and about the factors affecting the nutritional status and hence the dis
Distinguishing Time-Series Models by Impulse Response
Distinguishing time series models by impulse response-A case study of mortality and population economy
Age-specific mortality and short-term changes in the standard of living
Pre-Industrial Population Change
These are the proceedings of an international symposium entitled The Mortality Decline and Short-Term Population Movement held in Lund Sweden June 22-26 1981. Sixteen papers by various authors are included. The papers deal with aspects of the relationship between demographic and economic changes in preindustrial Europe. The primary focus of most of the papers is on the decline in mortality and the factors affecting it and on the factors influenci…
People, Cities and Wealth
A Re-Interpretation of Population Trends and Cycles in England, France and Sweden, 1751-1860
Bengtsson Tommy. A Re-Interpretation of Population Trends and Cycles in England, France and Sweden, 1751-1860. In: Histoire & Mesure, 1993 volume 8 - n°1-2. Varia / Démographie et histoire. pp. 93-115
Population, Economy, and Welfare in Sweden
La mortalité infantile et post-infantile dans les pays nordiques avant 1900
The mortality decline in the Nordic countries started at the end of the 18th century with a decrease in infant and child mortality. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that adult mortality started to fall. Recent research shows that improvements in nutrient supply, medical care, sanitation and nursing did not take place until the beginning of the 19th century, i.e. considerably later than the start of the decline in infant and child m…
Distinguishing Time-Series Models by Impulse Response
Distinguishing time series models by impulse response-A case study of mortality and population economy
The Vulnerable Child. Economic Insecurity and Child Mortality in Pre-Industrial Sweden
Childhood misery and disease in later life
This paper assesses the importance of early-life conditions relative to the prevailing conditions for mortality by cause of death in later life using historical data for four rural parishes in southern Sweden for which both demographic and economic data are very good. Longitudinal demographic data for individuals are combined with household socio-economic data and community data on food costs and the disease load using a Cox regression framework.…
Airborne infectious diseases during infancy and mortality in later life in southern Sweden, 1766–1894
BACKGROUND: The importance of early life conditions and current conditions for mortality in later life was assessed using historical data from four rural parishes in southern Sweden. Both demographic and economic data are valid. METHODS: Longitudinal demographic and socioeconomic data for individuals and household socioeconomic data from parish registers were combined with local area data on food costs and disease load using a Cox regression fram…
Histoire des populations et histoire des savoirs demographiques
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Sociologisk Forsknings digitala arkiv
Deliberate control in a natural fertility population
In this article, we analyze fertility control in a rural population characterized by natural fertility, using survival analysis on a longitudinal data set at the individual level combined with food prices. Landless and semilandless families responded strongly to short-term economic stress stemming from changes in prices. The fertility response, both to moderate and large changes in food prices, was the strongest within six months after prices cha…
Life under Pressure
Early-life effects on socio-economic performance and mortality in later life
Do conditions in early life affect old-age mortality directly and indirectly? Evidence from 19th-century rural Sweden
Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?
Population Ageing - a Threat to the Welfare State?
Quantifying the Family Frailty Effect in Infant and Child Mortality by Using Median Hazard Ratio (MHR)
Most microlevel studies in the social sciences have focused on the impact of different measured variables. While some studies have also dealt with unobserved variation, it has usually only been controlled for to perfect the estimates of the observables. In this article, the authors applied a modified version of a recently developed method designed to quantify the effect of unobserved variation in continuous time multilevel models, called a median…
The late emergence of socioeconomic mortality differentials
Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present
Population Aging and the Future of the Welfare State
Pathways to Health and Well-being
The historical fertility transition at the micro level
We know a great deal about the historical fertility transition at the macro level. The dominating focus on the macro level in previous research on the fertility transition means, however, that to a large extent we lack knowledge about details of the declin
Mortality
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