Double Trouble: The Burden of Child-rearing and Working on Maternal Mortality

Author:

Bucher-Koenen Tabea1,Farbmacher Helmut2,Guber Raphael2,Vikström Johan3

Affiliation:

1. ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, University of Mannheim and MEA, L7,1, D-68161 Mannheim, Germany

2. Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Max Planck Society, Amalienstr. 33, D-80799 Munich, Germany

3. Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), P.O. Box 513, SE-751 Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract

Abstract 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.

Funder

ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Mannheim

Publisher

Duke University Press

Subject

Demography

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