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In this paper we study again the effect on mortality of the extreme Dutch winters and summers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.We focus on those topics which already attracted the attention of medical doctors at the time: Were some age groups more vulnerable than others? Were there social c
Historical studies suggest that nineteenth- and twentieth-century processes of national integration in the countries of Western Europe fundamentally changed interactions between individuals living in different parts of those countries. These studies, however, were rarely able to provide direct evide
The question whether socioeconomic status gradients in adult mortality have changed over a broad historical period has become an important political and theoretical issue but is hard to test. In this article we study long-term trends in social inequality in adult mortality by using data for 2 (of th
This article investigates the determinants of kin marriage on the basis of a large-scale database covering a major rural part of The Netherlands during the period 1840–1922. We studied three types of kin marriage: first cousin marriage, deceased spouse’s sibling marriage, and sibling set exchange ma
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