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Historical Life Course StudiesAssessing the precision of causes of death is essential for gaining a clearer understanding of past disease incidence and its evolution. This study introduces a novel lexicographical approach to examining childhood mortality in the port city of Palma ...
Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora +1 more
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Fertility decline in North-Central Namibia [PDF]
This study examines fertility decline in North-Central Namibia in the period 1960-2000. A Scandinavian-type parish-register system, established in the beginning of 20th Century and still in use, provided register-based data for fertility analysis ...
Harri Siiskonen +2 more
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Costs and effects of two public sector delivery channels for long-lasting insecticidal nets in Uganda. [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: In Uganda, long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN) have been predominantly delivered through two public sector channels: targeted campaigns or routine antenatal care (ANC) services. Their combination in a mixed-model strategy is being advocated
Kilian, Albert +6 more
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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Loose, idle and disorderly: vagrant removal in late eighteenth-century Middlesex [PDF]
, 2014 This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Social History on 2 October 2014, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2014.975943Peer ...
Crymble, Adam +2 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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Recent Investigations at the Mounds Plantation Site (16CD12), Caddo Parish, Louisiana [PDF]
, 2012 Dr. Montroville Wilson Dickeson, born in Philadelphia in 1810, was a medical doctor, taxidermist and avid collector of fossils. Between 1837 and 1844 he pursued another interest—excavating Indian burial mounds in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys ...
Girard, Jeffery S.
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The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other.
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt +3 more
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Историческая этнология, 2016 The article analyzes Muslim birth records in Astrakhan. The sources characterize the daily life of the Tatar community in the city from the second half of the nineteenth through the beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Elmira K. Salakhova
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What did the Royal Almoner do in Britain and Ireland, c.1450-1700? [PDF]
, 2010 The late medieval and early modern royal almoner for England and Wales was an important figure, a senior cleric best documented as a court preacher who was the crown’s religious and moral face; prominent holders included Wolsey and Lancelot Andrewes. The
Houston, Robert (Rab)
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