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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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Wpływ klęsk głodu i epidemii chorób zakaźnych na demografię na obszarze zamieszkałym przez Górali Babiogórskich w okresie galicyjskim w latach 1772–1855

Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski
The article documents the scale of famines and epidemics of infectious diseases that occurred during the Galician period (1772–1855) in eight villages located at the northern foothills of Babia Góra, inhabited by the Górale Babiogórscy [Babia Góra ...
Paweł Franczak
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Marriage and Fertility in a Catholic Society: Eighteenth-Century Quebec [PDF]

There are similarities and differences in marriage and fertility behavior between early North American societies and their modern counterparts. This paper investigates the quantitative importance of differential fecundity, assortative matching, and ...
Aloysius Siow, Gillian Hamilton
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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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Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19^th century Tuscan population: the case of household out-migration [PDF]

, 2011
This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close ...
Breschi, Marco, Fornasin, Alessio, Manfredini, Matteo   +2 more
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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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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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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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Living standards and plague in London, 1560–1665 [PDF]

We use individual records of 920,000 burials and 630,000 baptisms to reconstruct the spatial and temporal patterns of birth and death in London from 1560 to 1665, a period dominated by recurrent plague. The plagues of 1563, 1603, 1625, and 1665 appear
Cummins, Neil, Kelly, Morgan, Ó Gráda, Cormac   +2 more
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