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...
Family structure and childhood anthropometry in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1918 [0.03%] 美国明尼苏达州圣保罗市1918年的家庭结构与儿童体质测量数值分布
Evan Roberts,John Robert Warren Evan Roberts
Concern with childhood nutrition prompted numerous surveys of children's growth in the United States after 1870. The Children's Bureau's 1918 "Weighing and Measuring Test" measured two million children to produce the first official American...
'A confession of ignorance': deaths from old age and deciphering cause-of-death statistics in Scotland, 1855-1949 [0.03%] 《无知的坦白》——死亡原因统计中的“死于衰老”以及时期为1855—1949年的苏格兰地区的解读
Alice Reid,Eilidh Garrett,Chris Dibben et al. Alice Reid et al.
A large amount of the research undertaken in an attempt to discover the reasons underlying the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mortality decline in Britain has relied on the statistics published by the Registrars General. The p...
Physical well-being and ethnic inequality in New Zealand prisons, 1840-1975 [0.03%] 1840-1975年新西兰监狱的身体健康与种族不平等现象
Kris Inwood,Les Oxley,Evan Roberts Kris Inwood
The British colonization of New Zealand after 1840 was marked by an unusual concern compared to other settler colonies for incorporating the indigenous population Māori population into the new society. But despite a continuing political rh...