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Death in Rural Georgia: A Historical Comparison of Georgians and Ossets in the Kistauri Commune

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: This article examines the factors influencing age at death in the multiethnic villages, comprised mostly of Georgians and Ossets, in the Kistauri commune in the eastern Republic of Georgia between 1897 and 1997. The data are analyzed with Cox proportional hazards models using age at death as the dependent variable, and ethnicity, gender, marital status, residency status, and year of birth as the independent variables. The results show that Georgians lived longer than Ossets. Individuals who had ever been married lived longer than those who had not. The results perhaps reflect harsher living conditions for Ossets, the ethnic minority, despite Soviet ideologies about equality.

Source: Journal of Family History

DOI: 10.1177/0363199020929679

Authors: Tinatin Zurabishvili, Rennie Lee, Rebecca Jean Emigh

Institutions: University of Bologna, Florida International University, University of California, Los Angeles

Language: English

Topic: Historical Economic and Social Studies

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: Ford Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development