Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past
What is the influence of family and kinship networks on fertility, marriage, migration and mortality? Population scientists have studied the relationship between families, both immediate and extended, and demographic behavior for many years. This volume highlights the convergence of research by a gr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
| Series: | International Studies in Population
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Family and Kin as Immediate Providers of Well-being for Its Members
- Marriage and the Kin Network: Evidence from a 19th-Century Italian Community
- Mortality in the Family of Origin and Its Effect on Marriage Partner Selection in a Flemish Village 18th–20th Centuries
- Villages, Descent Groups, Households, and Individual Outcomes in Rural Liaoning, 1789–1909
- The Importance of Family and Kin over the Life Course
- The Presence of Parents and Childhood Survival: The Passage of Social Time and Differences by Social Class
- When Do Kinsmen Really Help? Examination of Cohort and Parity-Specific Kin Effects on Fertility Behavior. The Case of the Bejsce Parish Register Reconstitution Study, 17th–20th Centuries, Poland
- Places of Life Events as Bequestable Wealth: Family Territory and Migration in France, 19th and 20th Centuries
- Inheritance, Environment, and Mortality in Older Ages, Southern Sweden, 1813–1894
- Kinship as a Marker of Genetic Proximity
- The Influence of Consanguineous Marriage on Reproductive Behavior and Early Mortality in Northern Coastal Sweden, 1780–1899
- Postreproductive Longevity in a Natural Fertility Population
- Familial Aggregation of Elderly Cause-Specific Mortality: Analysis of Extended Pedigrees in Utah, 1904–2002
- Distant Kinship and Founder Effects in the Quebec Population