We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in
life, using business cycle conditions early in life as an exogenous indicator. Individual …

Nutritional conditions in utero and during infancy may causally affect health and mortality
during childhood, adulthood, and at old ages. This paper investigates whether exposure to a …

New micro‐level data have recently become available for three provinces of The
Netherlands for the period 1812–1912, which allow the study of the evolution of socio …

In this article, Dutch family reconstructions from the period 1820–1885 are analyst. Cox
regression on birth intervals discloses that couples deliberately increased birth intervals …

Today, a social gradient in health is clearly visible. Individuals with higher socio-economic
statuses tend to live longer lives, and are less likely to be disabled or chronically ill …

The purpose of this research is to empirically test the salmon bias hypothesis, which states
that the “healthy migrant” effect—referring to a situation in which migrants enjoy lower …

Abstract Comparison and comparability lie at the heart of any comparative social science.
Still, precise comparison is virtually impossible without using similar methods and similar …

It remains unknown how different types of sources affect the reconstruction of life courses
and families in large-scale databases increasingly common in demographic research. Here …

Conscription records are considered to be the best sources for studying heights over
cohorts. This article discusses the various steps and selection mechanisms involved in the …

Height and infant mortality are both considered health indicators of a population, yet they
tend to be much more strongly correlated in high‐income, low‐mortality populations. This …