Espinosa, Javier; Evans, William N. - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 3, pp. 371-381
Using a 9-year follow-up of 69,224 mothers aged 20–50 from the National Longitudinal Mortality Survey, we investigate whether there is heightened mortality of mothers after the death of a child. Results from Cox proportional hazard models indicate that the death of a child produces a...