Demographic research has paid much attention to the impact of childhood conditions on
adult mortality. We focus on one of the key aspects of early life conditions, sibling group size …

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 …

Many historical and contemporary studies have shown that migrants enjoy survival
advantages over non-migrants, even if they originate from higher mortality regimes and have …

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 …

Studies have shown that long-lived individuals seem to pass their survival advantage on to
their offspring. Offspring of long-lived parents had a lifelong survival advantage over …

Previous studies explore the role of birth order in children's and adults' outcomes. This
literature usually provides evidence of disadvantage of children with higher birth order. A …

This research presents new evidence on the negative associations of the number of siblings
and birth order with years of schooling among female and male Spanish cohorts born in the …

Besides health and socio-economic status, the social relationships maintained during
elderly play an important role in shaping the living conditions at older ages. In this part of life …

Working on a project for 4 years means that many people were involved in some capacity.
To many of you, I would like to express my thanks and appreciation. For practical reasons, I …

Objective To assess the health cost (or benefit) of crisis-driven migration by focusing on the
infant mortality rate (IMR) of the Colombian diaspora in Venezuela and the Venezuelan …