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Seminar on Kinship and Demographic Behavior

31 October – 1 November 2005
Salt Lake City, Utah

Programme and Seminar Papers

(Papers are accessible by IUSSP members only)

Monday October 31
Huntsman Cancer Institute, 4 South Conference room (4103), University of Utah

9:00 Welcome
Geri Mineau, University of Utah
Tommy Bengtsson, Lund University, Sweden

9:30 Living with kin in the Netherlands: long-term trends, variability and effects on longevity
Ruben van Gaalen, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Utrecht University
Frans van Poppel, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
Discussant: Katherine Lynch, Carnegie Mellon University

10:30 Villages, Descent Groups Households and Individual Outcomes in Rural Liaoning, 1789-1909.
Cameron Campbell, University of California, Los Angeles
James Lee, University of Michigan
Discussant: Lee L. Bean, University of Utah

Lunch

1:00 Family, wealth and mortality: an analysis of alternative 19th century data sources.
Douglas L. Anderton, Social and Demographic Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
J.K. Beemer, Social and Demographic Research Institute, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Susan Leonard: ICPSR and Population Studies Center, University of Michigan-AnnArbor
Discussant: Samuel Clark, University of Washington

2:00 Fertility and post-reproductive longevity in early Quebec.
Alain Gagnon, Population Studies Centre, University of Western Ontario
Ryan Mazan, Population Studies Centre, University of Western Ontario
Bertrand Desjardins, Programme de recherches en demographie historique, Universite de Montreal
Ken R. Smith, University of Utah
Discussant: Lee Bean, University of Utah

BREAK

3:15 The effects of parent survival and proximity on adult offspring mortality.
Ken R. Smith, University of Utah
Gilda Garibotti, University of Utah
Alison Fraser, University of Utah
Geraldine Mineau, University of Utah
Discussant: John McCullough – University of Utah

Tuesday November 1
Huntsman Cancer Institute, 4 South Conference room (4103), University of Utah

9:00 Marriage partner selection according to mortality related characteristics in a Flemish village (18th-20th century)
Bart van de Putte, Centre for Population and Family Research, Catholic University of Leuven
Koen Matthijs, Centre for Population and Family Research, Catholic University of Leuven
Robert Vlietnick, Center of Human Genetics, Catholic University of Leuven
Discussant: Samuel Clark, University of Washington

10:00 Geographic endogamy and the kin network: socio-demographic factors and biological consequences of the marriage pattern in a 19th century Italian community
Matteo Manfredini, Department of Genetics and Anthropology, University of Parma
Discussant: Katherine Lynch, Carnegie Mellon University

11:00 Roundtable discussion

Lunch

2:30 Tour of the Family History Library – We will try to make special arrangements for anyone that wants to visit a particular section. Please let us know.
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp