Adaptation of the results from a recent family-reconstitution study of twenty-six parishes in pre-transition England reveals that long-term trends in post-neonatal mortality follow trends in a real-wage index, and that trends in neonatal mortality correlate with other economic factors. Thus, the hypothesis that infant mortality and economic performance in pre-transition England were related is consistent with the family-reconstitution data.

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