2006-08-012024-05-17https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/685196摘要：在20世紀早期，臺灣成年男性的死亡率比起成年女性高到不尋常的地步。臺灣各地區的成年男性死亡率也呈現明顯的地區性差異。在1906年，於宜蘭、基隆、深坑地區，以及恆春、南投等地，50歲到60歲每千名男性的死亡數目，大約是每千名女性死亡數目的兩倍。而同時，於新竹、嘉義和臺中，這個年紀的男性比起女性會少於1.3倍死亡的可能性(此比例約相當於當代美國的情形)。本計畫將檢視某些經濟和環境因素對這種成年男性相對死亡率地區性差異的解釋程度，同時也會檢視可以解釋這個差異的因素，是否也能解釋臺灣此時整體成年男性相對死亡率如此之高的現象。本研究打算從兩個方面進行，第一，我將利用1905-1921年跨地區的「堡」和「里」資料來跑迴歸(1920年之後，變成「莊」)，如果可能的話，我也會深入到各個村莊的數據。第二，也將利用不同「廳」和「州」不同年齡組的資料來跑迴歸。我需要更深入這個研究，方能判斷那一個方法是較有效果的。目前初步的研究顯示了一個假設，男性比女性早死亡的原因可能是社會風俗限制了女性外出工作的能力。而女性做粗活的能力也同時被纏足的習慣所限制。如此一來，男性必須承受超額的粗活勞力負擔。其他尚可檢驗的男性高<br> Abstract: In the early 20th century, the death rate of adult men in Taiwan was unusually high compared with the death rate of adult women. The relative death rate of adult men also varied greatly across regions in Taiwan. For men in their 50s, the number of deaths per 1000 in 1906 was roughly twice the number of deaths per 1000 for women in their 50s in the Ilan-Keelung-Shenkeng area, Hengchun and Nantou while in Hsinchu, Chiayi and Taitung such men were less than 1.3 times more likely to die than women (which was comparable to the contemporary U.S.). This project will examine the extent to which economic and environmental factors can explain the regional differences in the adult male relative death rate and then examine whether the factors explaining the regional differences in Taiwan can also explain why the overall relative adult male death rate was so high. My approach will be two-fold. First, I will run cross-sectional regressions using data, at the township and (if possible) village level, from the years 1905-1921. Second I will run panel-data regressions on different age groups in the different counties. I will need to get further along in the research before I can determine which approach will be most fruitful. Preliminary analysis suggests the hypothesis that an important reason men died young compared with women is that social mores limited women’s ability to work outside the home. Women’s ability to do heavy labor was also limited by the practice of foot-binding. Thus men had to bear an extra heavy labor burden. Other possible testable reasons for the high relative male death rate are paddy labor (which may have serious health effects) and opium use. Cropping patterns may also have affected the relative death rates since crops used different amounts of male and female labor and thus affected the relative demand for male labor which may have affected the relative welfare of males.死亡率勞動參加率Mortalitylabor force participation