Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data
Instructor(s): George Alter, History, University of Michigan; Myron Gutmann, History, University of Michigan and National Science Foundation
Workshop. Historical demography is an interdisciplinary field with a long history of important contributions to population studies and to the understanding of the past. This research has revealed a great deal about fundamental demographic processes such as household and family dynamics, the transition to smaller family units, pre- and post-industrial population dynamics, the demographic transition, migration patterns, and demographic responses to economic stress. This 4-week course will emphasize the use of event history analysis and data management of historical databases drawn from European, North American, and Asian populations. Longitudinal data will be employed to construct time-varying covariates and contextual variables for individuals, families, and households. Methodological issues such as censoring and incomplete information will also be addressed.
Participants should be familiar with quantitative methods, including regression analysis. Those who need preparation in statistics are advised to attend the regression and history courses in the first ICPSR summer session. The application process is competitive, and enrollment will be limited. Participants will be selected on the basis of their interests in the topical areas, prior methodological training, and potential for research contributions to the area. Applications must include a vita, and cover letter summarizing research interest, course objectives, and experience. Students also need to include a letter of reference from their advisor and a transcript of grades. A limited number of travel grants (between $500 and $2,000 US) will be awarded. Application materials are due by May 3. For those admitted to the workshop, no fee will be charged to attend the course.
Workshop support is provided by a Science Education Partnership Award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the ICPSR Summer Program.
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Materials from prior Workshops
- Syllabus
- Partipant Research Project Posters
- Growing up with women: The effect of older sibling sex composition on fertility control in a 19th-century German population
- Parental loss and childhood death in pre-industrial France
- Partner selection and marriage timing among migrants in Sart: A competing risks analysis
- Lineage patterns of non-marriage in Germany, 1700-1899
- Breaking up the house: New household heads in rural Liaoning, 1792-1909
- Gendered preferences for children in past Germany during the fertility decline, 1830-1930
- Marriage strategies after widowhood: Evidence from 18-19th century France
- Is a young married woman a good mother?
- Marital Fertility Patterns Before and After the French Revolution: An Exploratory Analysis of Louis Henry's Village Data
- Migration and Fertility in Sart
- The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Marital Fertility in 18th Century France
- Religion and Patterns of Marriage in Pre-Industrial Germany
- Testing the Diffusion Theory of Fertility Transition: Distance Effect on Fertility Control in France
- Women's post-fertile longevity in Germany, 1658-1974
- Why Dread Thanksgiving Dinners? Kinship Contingency on Birth Spacing: Case of Same Sex Siblings
- Month of birth and longevity in Utah: the best time to be born? (ZIP 464K)
- Inter-generational Transmission of Fertility Behavior In a 19th-Century Utah Population (ZIP 40K)
- Did Siblings Marry In Birth Order? Influences on the hazard of marriage, women and men born in Quebec before 1710 (ZIP 160K)
- Age at Last Birth and Longevity: A Study In Six Historical German Villages (ZIP 520K)
- Is Infant Death Clustering in the Households? (ZIP 96K)
- Can offspring sex preference be found through differential birth spacing? The case of late 19th and early 20th century Utah (ZIP 232K)
- Is sibling rivalry fatal? The impact of sibship composition on child mortality in nineteenth-century Sart, Belgium (ZIP 672K)
- Responding to Fertility Shocks: Twins as a Window into Demographic Behavior at the Family Level
- Stopping and Spacing Behavior in Times of Fertility Transition: Evidence from Germany
- The effect of parent's death on child mortality in Utah
- Life course and adult mortality
- Examining deliberate birth spacing before the fertility transition in France and Germany
- Pathways to Celibacy - Effects of household and individual characteristics on permanent celibacy in Sart, Belgium 1812-1891
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Instructors
- George Alter, University of Michigan
- Cameron Campbell, University of California at Los Angeles
- Glenn Deane, State University of New York at Albany
- Myron P. Gutmann, University of Michigan and National Science Foundation
- J. David Hacker, Binghamton University
- Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, University of Michigan
- Satomi Kurosu, Reitaku University
- Katherine A. Lynch, Carnegie Mellon University
- Ken R. Smith, Huntsman Cancer Institute and University of Utah
Past Guest Lecturers
- Douglas L. Anderton, University of South Carolina
- Sam Clark, University of Washington
- Bertrand Desjardins, University of Montreal
- Timothy Guinnane, Yale University
- Michael Haines, Colgate University
- James Z. Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Kees Mandemakers, International Institute of Social History