The effects of war losses on mortality estimates for Italy

Dana Glei, Silvia Bruzzone and Graziella Caselli
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Dana Glei: Georgetown University
Silvia Bruzzone: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT)
Graziella Caselli: Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

Demographic Research, 2005, vol. 13, issue 15, 363-388

Abstract: For countries that experience substantial war losses in a given time period, the exclusion of military deaths can have an important impact on estimates of mortality and life expectancy. In this paper, we start by reviewing Vallin’s work in accounting for French war losses. We then attempt to apply comparable methods to Italy in order to account for the effects of war. The results indicate that estimates currently available from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) greatly underestimate period mortality during wartime among all Italian males, and may even underestimate mortality among civilian males. Finally, we discuss how failing to account for war mortality presents problems in making inter-country mortality comparisons.

Keywords: mortality; France; Italy; life expectancy; war; war mortality; war losses; military; civilians (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.15

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