This paper reviews the literature in historical record linkage in the United States and
examines the performance of widely used record-linking algorithms and common variations …

For the past 80 years, social scientists have been linking historical censuses across time to
study economic and geographic mobility. In recent decades, the quantity of historical census …

This paper presents a probabilistic method of record linkage, developed using the US full
count censuses of 1900 and 1910 but applicable to many sources of digitized historical …

This paper describes the creation of the Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic
Micro-Database (LIFE-M), a new data resource linking vital records and decennial censuses …

This paper presents the longitudinal database POPLINK, which has been developed at the
Demographic Data Base at Umeå University, Sweden. Based on digitized Swedish …

This paper estimates the causal effect of a historical midwifery policy experiment on
maternal mortality, infant mortality, and stillbirth during the period of 1830–1894 in Sweden …

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 …

Despite long-standing recognition of the importance of family background in shaping life
outcomes, only recently have empirical studies in demography, stratification, and other …

This article evaluates linkage quality achieved by various record linkage techniques used in
historical demography. The author creates benchmark, or truth, data by linking the 2005 …

In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that
entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible …