Recent research argues that discriminatory practices unduly inflated female excess mortality
during infancy and childhood in historical Europe. This article reviews the existing evidence�…

Drawing upon agency theory and the family business literature, we hypothesize that
governance structure, the extent to which ownership and management are concentrated in�…

By relying on the number of (surviving) boys per hundred girls observed in the population
censuses as a cumulative measure of differential mortality during birth, infancy, and�…

Viewing the subsistence farm as primarily a'demographic enterprise'to create and support a
family, this book offers an integrated view of the demography and ecology of preindustrial�…

Family sociology, as well as other social sciences, often conceptualises historical and recent
family change in a 'before and after mode'. Current trends are set apart from and contrasted�…

Previous scholarship has assumed global correlations between premarital service in
husbandry, marriage age, the extent to which marriage coincided with the attainment of�…

BACKGROUND The living arrangements of adult children of immigrants are shaped across
Europe by both the dominant norms of mainstream society and the intergenerational�…

This special section presents new research on the ways in which unmarried parents–
particularly women–negotiated illegitimacy, how they interacted with urban institutions, and�…

Purpose This paper aims to draw on a family business perspective to explore the historic
accounting records of an Italian liquorice juice business. The applicability of the three-circle�…

In previous Finnish research, many features of funeral rituals have been linked to ancestor
cults and honouring or remembering past generations. However, the topic has not been�…