Estimates of Missing Women in Twentieth Century China
The phenomenon of "missing women" has existed throughout the twentieth century in China. Using data from five censuses, with appropriate adjustments, we estimate the numbers and percentage of missing women from the period 1900-2000. The analysis is broken down into historically important periods, and the consequences of missing women, particularly that of China's "bare branches" are explored. Implications for Chinese society are then discussed.
Immigration, Wealth and the 'Mortality Plateau' in Emergent Urban-Industrial Towns of Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
The mortality transition in Western Europe and the U.S. encompassed a much more complex set of conditions and experiences than earlier thought. Our research addresses the complex set of relationships among growing urban communities, family wealth, immigration and mortality in New England by examining individual-level, socio-demographic mortality correlates during the nineteenth-century mortality plateau and its early twentieth-century decline. In contrast to earlier theories that proposed a more uniform mortality transition, we offer an alternative hypothesis that focuses on the impact of family wealth and immigration on individual-level mortality during the early stages of the mortality transition in Northampton and Holyoke, Massachusetts.
The employment and retirement of older men, 1851-1881: further evidence from the census
The influence of the wider kin group on individual life-course transitions: results from the Pays de Herve (Belgium), 1846-1900
The institution of retirement on Scanian estates in the nineteenth century
Historical and present-day child labour: is there a gap or a bridge between them?
Infant mortality, flies and horses in later-nineteenth-century towns: a case study of Preston
Elderly migrants in a northern Swedish town in the nineteenth century
Monastic charitable provision in Tudor England: quantifying and qualifying poor relief in the early sixteenth century
Favoured or oppressed? Married women, property and "coverture" in England, 1660-1800
Nuclear hardship or variant dependency? Households and the Scottish Poor Law
To breastfeed another woman's child: wet-nursing in Stockholm, 1777-1937
Statistics and "sufficiency": toward an intellectual history of Russia's rural crisis
"Legalizing" the family: disputes about marriage, paternity and divorce in Algerian courts (1963-1990)
Childhood mortality in Central Spain, 1790-1960: changes in the course of demographic modernization
Changes in marriage patterns in the Spanish province of Navarre from the eighteenth to twentieth century
