Social Mobility and Demographic Behaviour: Long Term Perspectives: Introduction to the Special Collection on by Martin Dribe, Cameron Campbell, Jan Van Bavel

“…The authors originally presented these papers at "The International Seminar on Social Mobility and Demographic Behavior: A Long Term Perspective" held at the California Center for Population Research at UCLA in December 2009, and organized on behalf of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography. We convened the meeting as a means of promoting the use of historical demographic data to address a topic of contemporary relevance that has been the subject of much attention lately: how the inter-generational transmission of socioeconomic status and socioeconomic differentials in demographic behavior interact to shape patterns of inequality over the long term. …”
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The Impact of Microdata in Norwegian Historiography 1970 to 2020 by Hilde L. Sommerseth, Gunnar Thorvaldsen

“…These studies span a wide range of fields within social history and historical demography: Emigration, immigration, internal migration, fertility, nuptiality, family history and last but not least mortality studies with a priority given to infant mortality. …”
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Data Resources for Biodemographic Studies on Familial Clustering of Human Longevity

“…The review describes: (1) data resources developed for biodemographic studies, (2) data collected in the projects on historical demography, (3) data resources for long lived individuals and their families, (4) publicly available computerized genealogical data resources, (5) published genealogical and family history data. …”
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Conferința Studii de Populație. Provocări și Perspective. Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Centrul de Studiere a Populației, Cluj-Napoca, 1-2 iulie 2019 by Mihaela Hărăguș, Luminița Dumănescu

“…The conference aimed to provide a retrospective overview on population research drawing from various disciplines (history, historical demography, demography, sociology, human geography, economy, medicine, etc.), as well as an opportunity for researchers to discuss the role of population studies in informing public policies that address issues of contemporary population, such as population ageing, migration, low fertility, etc. …”
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Love riddles, couple formation, and local identity in eastern France by Hopkin, D

“…The purpose of this article is to show how specific aspects of the popular culture of Lorraine (eastern France) can be linked to distinctive features of the region's historical demography after the Thirty Years' War. It examines two customs associated with courtship: the dâyage, an exchange of riddle-like verses between groups of men and women at winter wakes, and the dônage, mock banns of marriage called by young men on the first Sunday of Lent. …”

Has living on islands been so simple? Insights from the insular endemic frog Discoglossus montalentii. by Roberta Bisconti, Daniele Canestrelli, Giuseppe Nascetti

“…We investigated the phylogeography, historical demography, and population genetic structure of the Corsican endemic frog, Discoglossus montalentii. …”
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The Black Death in the Kingdom of Hungary by András Vadas

“…Recent studies have drawn attention to the apparent lack of data on the Black Death in the region while pointing to the potential role of the later waves, such as the pestis secunda and tercia, as well as later medieval and early modern recurrences of the epidemic in the historical demography of Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary. The paper provides an overview of the written evidence of the Black Death in Hungary and publishes in extenso some of the most important documentary evidence of the episodes of the epidemic in the Kingdom of Hungary. …”
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Love riddles, couple formation, and local identity in Eastern France by Hopkin, D

“…The purpose of this article is to show how specific aspects of the popular culture of Lorraine (eastern France) can be linked to distinctive features of the region's historical demography after the Thirty Years War. It examines two customs associated with courtship: the dâyage, an exchange of riddle-like verses between groups of men and women at winter wakes, and the dônage, mock banns of marriage called by young men on the first Sunday of Lent. …”

Was bleibt von der Geschichtswissenschaft der DDR? by Helga Schultz

“…The author maintains that three currents of social history might survive the end of the GDR: a „structural history" being mainly historical demography and computer aided economic and social history; the „history of everyday life" inspired by the history of mentalite and historical anthropology; and a „history of societies" as a histoire totale of small entities. …”
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Self-Similarity in Population Dynamics: Surname Distributions and Genealogical Trees by Paolo Rossi

“…The frequency distribution of surnames turns out to be a relevant issue not only in historical demography but also in population biology, and especially in genetics, since surnames tend to behave like neutral genes and propagate like Y chromosomes. …”
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Modelowanie rozkładu kapitału ekonomiczno-społeczno-kulturowego poprzez genealogię masową by Marek Jerzy Minakowski

“…A coincidence has made it possible to create a new academic discipline in the borderland of genealogy and historical demography. Using the Social Network Analysis (SNA) the new discipline answers the questions of sociology and social history. …”
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O programowaniu w środowisku R na przykładzie algorytmu obliczeniowego dla formuły do wykrywania kryzysów demograficznych by Dariusz K. Chojecki

“…The article presents Jacques Dupâquier’s method to detect demographic crises on the basis of the temporal distribution of deaths in its classical and modified form, popular in historical demography. The presentation of the method based on the standardised data is a pretext for studying the programming in R (language), which is a continuation of the previous article. …”
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Assessment of the population genetic structure of Sphyrna lewini to identify conservation units in the Mexican Pacific by E Castillo-Olguín, M Uribe-Alcocer, P Díaz-Jaimes

“…Additional differences were also observed between the northern and central locations of the Mexican Pacific. The historical demography analysis revealed spatial expansion events, possibly related to glacial-interglacial cycles that occurred approximately 450,000 years ago. …”
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Population studies at 75 years: an empirical review by Mills, MC, Rahal, R

“…Children are rarely studied, and research on women focuses on family planning, fertility decline, and unions, whereas key domains for research on men are migration, historical demography (war, famine), and employment. Research on Africa and Asia focuses on family planning, with work on fertility decline concentrated on North America and Europe, consistent with theories of demographic transition. …”

From Late Miocene to Holocene: processes of differentiation within the Telestes genus (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae). by Vincent Dubut, Antoine Fouquet, Adrien Voisin, Caroline Costedoat, Rémi Chappaz, André Gilles

“…Focusing on T. souffia, a species occurring in the Danube and Rhone drainages, we were able to point out several specific events from the Pleistocene to the Holocene that have likely driven the differentiation and the historical demography of this taxon. This study provides support for an evolutionary history of dispersal and vicariance with unprecedented resolution for any freshwater fish in this region.…”
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Commémorer les épidémies dans un monde changeant : mémorialisation de la peste et autres fléaux infectieux du Moyen Âge à nos jours by Dominique Castex, Sacha Kacki

“…Epidemics that have marked the history of human societies have been the subject of active research for decades in fields as diverse as history, sociology, historical demography and archaeo-anthropology. However, the question of how these deadly events are remembered and the forms through which memory and commemoration materialised remains largely unexplored. …”
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Widows and widowers of Poltava in the second half of the 18th century by Yuriy Voloshyn

“…Using the methods of historical demography and social anthropology, the proportion of widows and widowers in the total structure of population, topography of their settlement, age characteristics, social status, the structure of households, and their financial situation were studied. …”
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Profesoři Hermenegild a Karel Škorpilové působící v Bulharsku 2. část by Ludvík Skružný

“…It focuses on numismatics, sphragistics, paleography, historical demography, geography and iconography. Thanks to the knowledge of these auxiliary historical sciences, he was able to more accurately solve historical issues and show evidence that Pliska is the older center of the country than Veliki Preslav. …”
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GRDAN’S UPRISING IN THE PLANS AND ARCHIVES OF THE APOSTOLIC SEE by KATARINA MITROVIĆ, MARIJA KOPRIVICA

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New genetic perspectives of the ambiguous pomfret as revealed by CR sequences by Yuan Li, Yan Zhang, Longshan Lin, Tianxiang Gao, Liqin Liu

“…Here, the mitochondrial control region (CR) was used to evaluate the population genetics and elaborate the historical demography of the Silver pomfret collected from six geographical locations in China, Pakistan, and Kuwait. …”
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