Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past

1. Front Matter

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2. Family and Kin as Immediate Providers of Well-being for Its Members

   1. Introduction

      • Tommy Bengtsson, Geraldine P. Mineau

      Pages 1-12

   2. Marriage and the Kin Network: Evidence from a 19th-Century Italian Community

      • Matteo Manfredini, Marco Breschi

      Pages 15-36

   3. Mortality in the Family of Origin and Its Effect on Marriage Partner Selection in a Flemish Village 18th–20th Centuries

      • Bart Van de Putte, Koen Matthijs, Robert Vlietinck

      Pages 37-72

   4. Villages, Descent Groups, Households, and Individual Outcomes in Rural Liaoning, 1789–1909

      • Cameron Campbell, James Lee

      Pages 73-101

3. The Importance of Family and Kin over the Life Course

   1. The Presence of Parents and Childhood Survival: The Passage of Social Time and Differences by Social Class

      • Frans Van Poppel, Ruben Van Gaalen

      Pages 105-134

   2. 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

      • Krzysztof Tymicki

      Pages 135-154

   3. Places of Life Events as Bequestable Wealth: Family Territory and Migration in France, 19th and 20th Centuries

      • Lionel Kesztenbaum

      Pages 155-184

   4. Inheritance, Environment, and Mortality in Older Ages, Southern Sweden, 1813–1894

      • Tommy Bengtsson, Göran Broström

      Pages 185-201

4. Kinship as a Marker of Genetic Proximity

   1. The Influence of Consanguineous Marriage on Reproductive Behavior and Early Mortality in Northern Coastal Sweden, 1780–1899

      • Inez Egerbladh, Alan Bittles

      Pages 205-224

   2. Postreproductive Longevity in a Natural Fertility Population

      • Alain Gagnon, Ryan Mazan, Bertrand Desjardins, Ken R. Smith

      Pages 225-241

   3. Familial Aggregation of Elderly Cause-Specific Mortality: Analysis of Extended Pedigrees in Utah, 1904–2002

      • Richard Kerber, Elizabeth O'Brien, Ken R. Smith, Geraldine P. Mineau

      Pages 243-258

   4. Distant Kinship and Founder Effects in the Quebec Population

      • Marc Tremblay, Hélène Vézina, Bertrand Desjardins, Louis Houde

      Pages 259-277

5. Back Matter

   Pages 279-284

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The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population’s Panel on Historical Demography applies a historical perspective, such as the importance of kinship networks for demographic outcomes later in life, to promote work of contemporary relevance. Connections over time, whether across generations or different segments of the life course, are an area of convergent interest among multiple disciplines. Specific topics of common interest are the influence of con- tions earlier in life on outcomes later in life, intergenerational associations in social, economic, and demographic outcomes, socioeconomic differences in health status and demographic outcomes, and the influence of industrialization and modernization on such patterns and relationships. Historical population da- bases, currently under expansion in a variety of locations around the world, provide longitudinal data on individuals across multiple generations and are especially amenable to the examination of such issues. Through a series of workshops sci- tists at the forefront of research on these issues were brought together in order to instigate a new wave of comparative work. Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Past is intended to extend the disc- sions that occurred at two seminars, cosponsored by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, to a broader community of population scientists. Experts from many disciplines have come together in this volume to highlight the convergence of research by demographers, economic historians, historians, anth- pologists, sociologists, and geneticists.

• Cohort studies
• Demography
• Familie
• Kinship
• Migration
• Mortality
• Socioeconomic Factors

• Centre for Economic Demography and Department of Economic History, Lund University, Sweden

  Tommy Bengtsson

• Department of Oncological Sciences and Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, USA

  Geraldine P. Mineau

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