Life-history theory predicts that selection could favor the decoupling of somatic and
reproductive senescence if post-reproductive lifespan (PRLS) provides additional indirect …

Objectives This study provides an evolutionary perspective to a classic topic in demography,
that is, the discrepancy between reproductive intention and subsequent behavior, in the …

This special issue contains a collection of papers that study how children are affected by
their sibship size, using anthropometric data. The varied results provide a wealth of new …

Child survival depends on the allocation of resources within the household. The size and
composition of the sibling set influences parental division of resources and can in turn affect …

This special section contains a collection of articles that study how children are affected by
their sibship size and composition by examining their influence on several demographic …

Early life environments can have long-lasting effects on adult reproductive performance, but
disentangling the influence of early and adult life environments on fitness is challenging …

Motivated by the cooperative breeding hypothesis, we investigate the effect of having kin on
the mortality of reproductive women based on family reconstitutions for the Krummhörn …

This article explores the impact of parental loss and subsequent remarriage on child survival
in the nineteenth century, by drawing on the example of post-emancipation rural Estonia. We …

In February 1825, the dikes broke after a spring tide in the Krummhörn region in East Frisia,
Germany, causing a severe disaster. Although the flood did not claim many victims …

This study examines the changes in child mortality in Korea during the mid-twentieth century
by focusing on gender, birth order and sibling composition. We hypothesize that social …