In an age of digitalization, who still refuses to use digital technology? Drawing on nationally-
representative Chinese General Social Survey data, this article finds that about half of …

With only a few exceptions, the historical study of individual-level correlates of child mortality
in the United States has been limited to the period surrounding the turn of the twentieth …

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This study analyses how the standard of living for different social groups changed when
Sweden developed from an agricultural to an industrial society and when the first steps …

Today, a social gradient in health is clearly visible. Individuals with higher socio-economic
statuses tend to live longer lives, and are less likely to be disabled or chronically ill …

Height and infant mortality are both considered health indicators of a population, yet they
tend to be much more strongly correlated in high‐income, low‐mortality populations. This …

The complex relationship between the history of infectious diseases and social inequalities
has recently attracted renewed attention. Smallpox has so far largely escaped this revived …

Centenarians are of particular importance to aging research as they represent the living
architype of exceptional longevity and as such studying their attributes is expected to …

15 these local studies have provided explanations that tend to be time specific: for example
the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century government information campaigns for …

Abstract Using 1.6 m marriages, 1837–1939, and a genealogy of 428,000 people 1600–
2022, we estimate three new occupational status indices for England 1800–1939. The first …