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

We use a set of linked reproductive histories taken from Sweden, the Netherlands, and
Spain for the period 1871–1960 to address key issues regarding how reproductive change …

Kinship relations play a crucial role in structuring populations and shaping individual
outcomes. Differences in kinship among individuals, cohorts, and subpopulations are one …

The authors use administrative data linked to parish records from northern Sweden to study
how persistent inequality is across multiple generations in education, occupation, and …

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 …

By exploring demographic data on teachers through a Bordieusian lens, this study aims to
analyse the socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden …

Abstract The Demographic Data Base (DDB) at the Centre for Demographic and Ageing
Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University has since the 1970s been building longitudinal …

Background Inbreeding, arising from consanguinity between related parents, has been
observed to impact the health of individuals, typically attributed to biological factors …

We follow men and women born in nineteenth-century Northern Sweden and their
descendants in contemporary Sweden. We examine absolute demographic success …

Background Many studies have shown the impact of heat and cold on total and age-specific
mortality, but knowledge gaps remain regarding weather vulnerability of very young infants …