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Friday 13 November, Tim Riswick successfully defended his dissertation 'Between Rivalry and Support, the impact of brothers and sisters on infant and child mortality in the Netherlands (1863-1910) and Taiwan (1906-1945)'.
A new release of the HSN Occupations is available: ‘HSN standardized, HISCO-coded and classified occupational titles, release 2020.02’. Click here for more information.
Now available online the article 'Families in comparison: An individual-level comparison of life-course and family reconstructions between population and vital event registers' in Population Studies by Niels
On 30 January 2020 Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge defended his dissertation Dealing with demographic stress in childhood. Parental death and the transition to adulthood in the Netherlands, 1850-1952 at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
On Wednesday 22 January 2020 Niels van den Berg defended his PhD thesis entitled Family matters: a genealogical inquiry into the familial component of longevity at Leiden University.
On 17 December 2019 Rick Mourits defended his PhD dissertation Exceptional lives, extraordinary families. Familial clustering of longevity in the 19th and early-20th centuries at the Radboud University Nijmegen.
The HSN Annual Report 2018 is now available (PDF).
On 1 July 2019 Peter Ekamper defended his PhD dissertation, Time and space in historical demography. Some case studies using Dutch micro-data, at the University of Groningen.
On 12 June 2019 Ingrid van Dijk successfully defended her PhD thesis Death and the family. High mortality families and the life course, The Netherlands, 1812-1912 at Radboud University Nijmegen.
On Thursday 21 January 2019 Ashkan Ashkpour defended his PhD dissertation Theory and Practice of Historical Census Data Harmonization. The Dutch Historical Census Use Case: A Flexible, Structured and Accountable Approach using Linked Data.
The links between marriage certificates produced by the HSN LINKS project are now available on the website of WieWasWie.
Besides the continuous work on the extension of the HSN and LINKS database and the EHPS Network, the HSN staff was engaged in three projects during 2017: GIANTS, collecting heights form militia registers, LONGPOP, employing two so-called Early Stage Researchers (ESR) and CLARIAH Cure which was directed at the improvement of the existing HSN database.
