Institutional, Social, and Household Determinants of Reproduction in Northeast China, 1789-1906 [0.03%]
1789－1906年东北中国的生育率：制度、社会与家庭因素的影响
Shengbin Wei
Shengbin Wei
This study examined the effects of institutional, social, and household contexts on reproductive outcomes in rural east Liaoning (Liaodong) and Shuangcheng in northeast China from the late 18th to the early 20th century. This study used the...
Identifying Matrilineal Kin Networks in the United States 1900-1940 [0.03%]
基于美国1900-1940年人口普查资料的母系亲属关系网分析
Matt A Nelson
Matt A Nelson
National-level analysis of historical women's life courses and kinship networks is understudied due to data limitations. Previous analysis of patrilineal kin propinquity in the United States relied on surnames to identify the probability of...
Did migration alter the path of the demographic transition for French Canadians in the United States? [0.03%]
移民如何改变美国法裔加拿大人的人口转变路径？
Danielle Gauvreau,J David Hacker,Marie-Ève Harton
Danielle Gauvreau
Large numbers of Canadians, of both English and French descent, migrated to the United States between 1850 and 1930. In Canada, French-Canadian fertility and child mortality rates were about 50% higher than English Canadian rates. Although ...
Trends in assortative mating in the United States, 1700-1910. Evidence from FamiLinx data [0.03%]
1700-1910年美国的配偶选择趋势——来自FamiLinx数据的证据
Giulia Corti,Saverio Minardi,Nicola Barban
Giulia Corti
Couple formation and assortative mating significantly influence societal structures, as marriages between individuals from diverse geographical or social backgrounds promote intra-family diversity. Understanding these patterns is crucial fo...
'I praie ye send for the courall': children's coral as the physical embodiment of parental hopes and fears in early modern England [0.03%]
“我祈求你们送珊瑚来”——在早期现代英国儿童的珊瑚饰品作为承载父母希望与忧虑的物质载体
Francesca Elizabeth Richards
Francesca Elizabeth Richards
Mediterranean red coral has long been believed to be imbued with sacred, spiritual and healing power and was given to children across Europe in the form of an amulet, teether or medicine. In early modern England, portraits of children from ...
Childhood Growth and Socioeconomic Outcomes in Early Adulthood Evidence from the Inter-War United States [0.03%]
成长与社会经济成果来自战间期美国的证据
Evan Roberts,Jonas Helgertz,John Robert Warren
Evan Roberts
Childhood malnutrition and its later life effects were important concerns in European and North American social policy in the early twentieth century. However, there have been few studies of the long-term socioeconomic consequences of malnu...
Jan Kok,Björn Quanjer,Kristina Thompson
Jan Kok
The central question in this special issue is a relatively new one in anthropometric history: how did body height affect the life course? This raises the issue of whether such an effect merely captures the underlying early-life conditions t...
Romola Jane Davenport,Max Satchell,Leigh Matthew William Shaw-Taylor
Romola Jane Davenport
The malign contribution of northern industrial cities to the stagnation of national life expectancy over the period 1820-1870 forms part of one of the most long-running debates in English economic history, regarding the impact of early indu...
Infant-feeding practices and infant survival by familial wealth in London, 1752-1812 [0.03%]
伦敦1752至1812年期间婴儿喂养方式、家庭财富与婴儿生存率的关系研究
Romola Jane Davenport
Romola Jane Davenport
Anecdotal evidence indicates that high-status women in England generally did not breastfeed their children in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Metropolitan families of varied social status also often sent their children out o...
Can resource dilution explain differences in height by birth order and family size? A study of 389,287 male recruits in twentieth-century Netherlands [0.03%]
资源稀释能解释荷兰上世纪近39万男性兵役服役者中的出生顺序和家庭规模对身高的影响吗？
Laura Stradford,Frans van Poppel,L H Lumey
Laura Stradford
'Resource dilution' has been invoked as a possible mechanism to explain the inverse relation between sibship size and sibling heights in European populations (Öberg, 2015). Alternative explanations include confounding of the relation by ot...