TY - JOUR
T1 - Mortality among Japanese singles
T2 - A re-investigation*
AU - Goldman, Noreen
AU - Takahashi, Shigesato
AU - Hu, Yuanreng
N1 - Funding Information:
* We would like to acknowledge partial support from the Japan Foundation for this research. We would also like to thank Rachel Weinstein and Noriko Tsuya for helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. t Office of Population Research, 21 Prospect Avenue, Princeton, NJ 08540. ~/ Institute of Population Problems, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan. ! WESTAT, Rockville, MD 20850. Y. Hu and N. Goldman, Mortahty differentials by marital status. An international comparison', Demography, 27 (2) (1990), pp. 233-250. 2 N. Goldman and Y. Hu, 'Excess mortality among the unmarried. A case study of Japan', Social Science and Medicine, 36 (4) (1993), pp. 533-546; N. Goldman, 'The perils of single life in contemporary Japan', Journal of Marriage and the Family, 55 (1993), pp. 191-204.
PY - 1995/7/1
Y1 - 1995/7/1
N2 - This analysis uses prefecture-level data on deaths by cause and marriage type in Japan to test hypotheses which relate the ‘arranged marriage’ system to cause-specific mortality patterns among single Japanese men and women. The results from this analysis, combined with earlier findings, confirm the importance of the mate selection process in producing atypically high and rapidly declining mortality rates among Japanese singles, and suggest that the presence of tuberculosis, along with several other diseases, was an important component of the screening process for potential spouses. The findings also highlight the difficulties of identifying marriage selection mechanisms in industrialized societies from cause of death data.
AB - This analysis uses prefecture-level data on deaths by cause and marriage type in Japan to test hypotheses which relate the ‘arranged marriage’ system to cause-specific mortality patterns among single Japanese men and women. The results from this analysis, combined with earlier findings, confirm the importance of the mate selection process in producing atypically high and rapidly declining mortality rates among Japanese singles, and suggest that the presence of tuberculosis, along with several other diseases, was an important component of the screening process for potential spouses. The findings also highlight the difficulties of identifying marriage selection mechanisms in industrialized societies from cause of death data.
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U2 - 10.1080/0032472031000148486
DO - 10.1080/0032472031000148486
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0029505997
SN - 0032-4728
VL - 49
SP - 227
EP - 239
JO - Population Studies
JF - Population Studies
IS - 2
ER -