Investigations of women's same-sex relationships present a paradoxical pattern, with
women generally disliking competition, yet also exhibiting signs of intrasexual rivalry. The …

Research on early-life mortality in contemporary and historical populations has shown that
infant and child mortality tend to cluster in a limited number of high-mortality families, a …

Benefiting from Montreal's remarkable archival records, Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton
use an ingenious sampling of twelve surnames to track the comings and goings, births …

In a 1990 article, Amartya Sen observed “More than 100million Women… Missing” from the
populations of parts of south and east Asia. Direct observation and census data suggested …

This paper compares the statures of men during late adolescence, measured at age 19, with
the stature in adulthood, measured at age 25, specially focusing on the influences of …

Although many contemporary demographers pay attention to historical demography, there is
often a surprising lack of appreciation of the demographic circumstances and systems of the …

Objective This project sought to investigate whether an association may be observed
between isotopic stress indicators and skeletal evidence of pathological conditions …

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 …

Most microlevel studies in the social sciences have focused on the impact of different
measured variables. While some studies have also dealt with unobserved variation, it has …

In the City of Montreal, 1881, the presence of three cultural communities with different
profiles of economic status makes it possible to observe the way social settings affected …