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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, Riikka Shemeikka, Veijo Notkola   +2 more
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The books of the dead revisited: mortality and morbidity in the German colonies of southern Brazil, 1850-1880

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos
Examines mortality and morbidity in São Leopoldo/RS (1850-1880). Our interdisciplinary study is based on the Gemeindebücher (parish registers) produced by Lutheran communities.
João Biehl, Miquéias Henrique Mugge, Ana Maria Goldani   +2 more
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A spatiotemporal reconstruction of the 1630 plague epidemic in Milan. [PDF]

iScience, 2023
Galli M, Nodari R, Perini M, Luconi E, Fois L, Vaglienti F, Bandi C, Biganzoli E, Comandatore F.   +8 more
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The Child Quantity-Quality Trade-Off During the Industrial Revolution in England [PDF]

We take Gary Becker's child quantity-quality trade-off hypothesis to the historical record, investigating the causal link from family size to the literacy status of offspring using data from Anglican parish registers, c. 1700-1830.
Jacob Weisdorf, Marc Klemp
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Credit in the Body of Christ (Northern France, 1300-1600) [PDF]

, 2013
This paper examines a practice that is nearly imperceptible to historians because the bulk of evidence for it is to be found in the interstices of the beaten paths of legal and social history and because it mixes economic and religious matters in a ...
Lange, Tyler
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The correlates of infant and childhood mortality: A theoretical overview and new evidence from the analysis of longitudinal data of the Bejsce (Poland) parish register reconstitution study of the 18th-20th centuries

Demographic Research, 2009
This paper has two main goals. The first is to review the context for studying infant mortality, which includes a review of the theoretical framework, the covariates used to examine mortality over the first 60 months of life, and the major findings of ...
Krzysztof Tymicki
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City and Countryside Revisited. Comparative rent movements in London and the South-East, 1580-1914 [PDF]

, 2011
Economic historians have traditionally argued that urban growth in England was driven primarily by prior improvements in agricultural supply in the two centuries before the industrial revolution.
Gibson, James M., Lyne, Owen D., Ormrod, David J.   +2 more
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Universities and Professions in the Early Modern Period [PDF]

, 2009
This article brings together old and new ideas and information to provide a different perspective than has so far prevailed upon the relationship between the universities and the professions in the early modern period. It focuses not only upon the direct
O'Day, Rosemary
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Żeńskie imiona chrzestne w księgach urodzeń miasta Miechowa

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2010
In the present article, 115 Christian names of female children born between 1918 and 1939 have been presented and analysed. The source material is based on parish registers which are available in Miechow parochial office.
Ewa Horyń
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Malthus in the bedroom : birth spacing as a preventive check mechanism in pre-modern England [PDF]

The role of demography in long-run economic growth has been subject to increasing attention. This paper questions the received wisdom that marital birth control was absent before the nineteenth century.
Cinnirella, Francesco, Klemp, Marc P. B., Weisdorf, Jacob L.   +2 more
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