Research Area: Regional Studies:
Europe

Recent Publications

Books

Thornton, Arland. 2005. Reading History Sideways: the Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press.

Bengtsson, Tommy, Cameron D. Campbell, and James Z. Lee. 2004. Life under Pressure : Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900. Boston, Mass : MIT Press.

Journal Articles

2008

Oris, Michel, and George C. Alter. 2008. "Effets de fratrie et mobilité sociale intergénérationnelle dans la Belgique urbaine et rurale au xixe siècle." Annales de Démographie Historique, 15(1): 115-138.

Alter, George C., and Michel Oris. 2008. "Effects of Inheritance and Environment on the Heights of Brothers in Nineteenth-century Belgium." Human Nature, 19(1): 44-55.

2007

Oris, M., M. Neven, and Alter, George C. 2007. "When protoindustry collapsed fertility and the demographic regime in rural eastern Belgium during the industrial revolution." Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung, 32(2): 137-159.

2004

Anderson, Barbara. 2004. "Unintended Population Consequences of Policies." Population and Environment, 25(4): 377-390.

Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and J. Surkyn. 2004. "Value Orientations and the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) in Northern, Western and Southern Europe: An Update." Demographic Research, 3: 45-86.

Fernandez, W.G., Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, B. Koci, R.J. Waldman, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "Mental health status among ethnic Albanians seeking medical care in an emergency department two years after the war in Kosovo." Annals of Emergency Medicine, 43(2): E1-E8.

Nelson, B., W.G. Fernandez, Sandro Galea, S. Sisco, K. Dierberg, G.S. Gorgieva, A. Nandi, J. Ahern, M. Mitrovia, M. van Rooyen, and D. Vlahov. 2004. "War-related psychological sequelae among emergency department patients in the former Republic of Yugoslavia." BMC Medicine, 2(1): 22.

2003

Ono, Hiromi. 2003. "Women's Economic Standing, Marriage Timing, and Cross-National Contexts of Gender." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 65(2): 275-286.

2002

Anderson, Barbara. 2002. "Russia Faces Depopulation? Dynamics of Population Decline." Population and Environment, 23(5): 437-464. Reprint No. 602.

Muntaner, C., John W. Lynch, Marianne M. Hillemeier, J.H. Lee, R. David, J. Benach, and Alicia Puente Cackley. 2002. "Economic Inequality, Working-Class Power, Social Capital, and Cause-Specific Mortality in Wealthy Countries." International Journal of Health Services, 32(4): 629-656.

Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and K. Neels. 2002. "From the First to the Second Demographic Transition: An Interpretation of the Spatial Continuity of Demographic Innovation in France, Belgium and Switzerland." European Journal of Population, 18(4): 325-260.

Lesthaeghe, Ron J., and J. Surkyn. 2002. "New Forms of Household Formation in Central and Eastern Europe-Are they Related to Newly Emerging Value Orientations?" Economic Survey of Europe, 1: 197-216.

Chapters

Bjorklund, Anders, Markus Jantti, and Gary Solon. 2005. "Influences of Nature and Nurture on Earnings Variation: A Report on a Study of Various Sibling Types in Sweden." In Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves . New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Inglehart, Ronald F. 2004. "East European Value Systems in Global Perspective." In Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe: Identity, Values and Culture edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Dieter Fuchs and Jan Zielonka. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Danziger, Sheldon H. 2002. "After Welfare Reform and an Economic Boom: Why is Child Poverty Still So Much Higher in the U.S. than in Europe?" In Children and Social Security edited by J. Bradshaw. 3-35. London: Ashgate.PSC Research Report No. 02-506.

Inglehart, Ronald F. 2002. "Cultural Cleavages in the European Union: Modernization and Cultural Persistence." In Burger und Demokratie in Ost und West edited by Dieter Fuchs, Edeltraud Rollerl, Bernhard Wessels. Pp. 73-84. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag.


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