F W A Van Poppel
Biographic Data
| ID | 215787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F W A Van Poppel |
| GIVEN NAMES | F W A |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Poppel |
| SIGNATURE | VAN POPPEL F W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1118-4541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 79 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 572 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 79 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Regional Differences in the Chance to Become a Centenarian in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Dutch Birth Cohorts
Various areas around the world have been identified as areas with significantly higher proportions of centenarians than elsewhere. These so‐called ‘blue zones’ are assumed only to be found in geographically and/or historically isolated regions with more traditional lifestyles. Our objective is to find out whether areas with exceptional high numbers of centenarians can be found in the Netherlands. We use a long historical perspective analysing Dut…
Infant and childhood death in the medical profession. Evidence from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Netherlands
This paper shows the effect that the medical expertise of medical practitioners had on the life chances of their children. We focus on infant and early childhood mortality. We reconstructed the life histories of the offspring of a group of around 2800 medical practitioners who were practicing in a high-mortality region in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1922, the period during which infant and child mortality in the Netherlands underwent the lar…
Maternal Life-Histories of Multiple Birth Mothers Compared to Singleton Only Mothers in 19th and Early 20th Century Netherlands
Research on mothers of twins suggests they have a more robust phenotype compared to singleton only mothers. Historical demographic microdata can be of additional value in studying differences in reproductive behaviour and survival of their offspring between multiple birth mothers and singleton only mothers. However, the number of such studies in historical populations is limited. This study aims to explore the possibilities to study maternal life…
War- and famine-related excess mortality among civilians in the Netherlands, 1944–1945
National estimates exist for war- and famine-related deaths in the Netherlands during the last stages of World War II, but no such estimates are available at the local level. To fill this information gap, this article aims at mapping and visualizing the timing of war- and famine-related excess mortality by municipality among the civilian population within the Netherlands. We use mortality statistics at the level of municipalities because these ar…
Infant mortality in mid‐19th century Amsterdam
This study uses a unique historical GIS dataset compiled from birth, death, and population register records for infants born in the city of Amsterdam in 1851 linked to micro‐level spatial data on housing, infrastructure, and health care. Cox's proportional hazards models and the concept of egocentric neighbourhoods were used to analyse the effects of various sociodemographic characteristics, residential environment, water supply, and health‐care …
War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45
Despite there being several estimates for famine-related deaths in the west of The Netherlands during the last stage of World War II, no such information exists for war-related excess mortality among the civilian population from other areas of the country. Previously unavailable data files from Statistics Netherlands allow researchers to estimate the number of war-related excess deaths during the last stage of the war in the whole country. This s…
Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition
We use a set of linked reproductive histories taken from Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain for the period 1871–1960 to address key issues regarding how reproductive change was linked specifically to mortality and survivorship and more generally to individual agency. Using event-history analysis, this study investigates how the propensity to have additional children was influenced by the number of surviving offspring when reproductive decisions w…
L'espérance de vie des professions médicales aux Pays-Bas du xvi e au xx e siècle
L'augmentation de l'espérance de vie est considérée comme l'un des facteurs déterminants du début de la croissance économique moderne. S'appuyant sur des informations concernant les élites, les historiens de l'économie ont remis en question l'idée, très courante chez les démographes, que l'espérance de vie serait restée plutôt stable jusqu'aux environs de 1800. Les informations sur l'évolution à long terme de l'espérance de vie qui pourraient cor…
Can resource dilution explain differences in height by birth order and family size? A study of 389,287 male recruits in twentieth-century Netherlands
Resource dilution' has been invoked as a possible mechanism to explain the inverse relation between sibship size and sibling heights in European populations (Öberg, 2015). Alternative explanations include confounding of the relation by other measured or unmeasured family characteristics including socio-economic position or birth order. It is difficult to quantify the contribution of any factor in isolation. To examine the question, we accessed da…
Early-life conditions and adult mortality decline in Dutch cohorts born 1812-1921
Mounting evidence suggests that early-life conditions have an enduring effect on an individual's mortality risks as an adult. The contribution of improvements in early-life conditions to the overall decline in adult mortality, however, remains a debated issue. We provide an estimate of the contribution of improvements in early-life conditions to mortality decline after age 30 in Dutch cohorts born between 1812 and 1921. We used two proxies for ea…
Differences in height by education among 371,105 Dutch military conscripts
Independent and additive association of prenatal famine exposure and intermediary life conditions with adult mortality between age 18-63 years
Spatial inequalities in infant survival at an early stage of the longevity revolution
Spatial inequalities in human development are of great concern to international organisations and national governments. Demographic indicators like the infant mortality rate are important measures for determining these inequalities. Using demographic indic
Trends and risk factors of maternal mortality in late-nineteenth-century Netherlands
Using family reconstitution data from the Dutch provinces of Groningen, Drenthe, and Zeeland, trends and risk factors of maternal death from 1846 to 1902 are studied. Findings confirm other studies of maternal mortality trends for the Netherlands in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and show that rates were already steadily decreasing in the mid-nineteenth century. The role of biological and social risk factors including age, parity, bir…
Demographic Transitions and Changes in the Living Arrangements of Children
Life expectancy of artists in the Low Countries from the fifteenth to the twentieth century
We investigated the role that urbanization and plague may have played in changes in life expectancy amongst artists in the Low Countries who were born between 1450 and 1909. Artists can be considered to be representative of a middle-class population living mostly in urban areas. The dataset was constructed using biographical information collected by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in The Hague, the Netherlands. As early as the …
Marital Fertility Decline in the Netherlands
Previous studies of the fertility decline in Europe are often limited to an earlier stage of the marital fertility decline, when the decline tended to be slower and before the large increase in earnings in the 1920s. Starting in 1860 (before the onset of the decline), this study follows marital fertility trends until 1939, when fertility reached lower levels than ever before. Using data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN), this st…
The Impact of Assimilation on the Family Structure of Jews in Amsterdam, 1880–1940
Since the process of assimilation of Jews coincided with a fertility transition, this study examines the relation between changes in the household structure of families of Jewish origin and the process of assimilation. Data were gathered from the Amsterdam registry for 717 Jewish descendants born in Amsterdam between 1883 and 1922. Our research shows a decrease in average number of siblings at birth among successive birth cohorts. Moreover, espec…
Historical Trends in the Correlation of Sibling Deaths in Infancy in The Netherlands
In this article, we study temporal, regional, and social variation in infant and childhood death clustering in The Netherlands, using data from three provinces. The data relate to children born in 90,000 marriages contracted between the beginning and the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Descriptive indicators show that death clustering was more frequent in the province of Zeeland and more common in the lower classes, and that it increased …
Mortality decline and reproductive change during the Dutch demographic transition
According to classic demographic transition theory, mortality change is the key factor that triggers a decline in fertility. Research on this topic has mostly relied on aggregate or time series data. Since fertility is based on the joint decisions of coupl
Heat Waves and Cold Spells and their Effect on Mortality
Le changement à long terme des relations entre les variations temporelles de la mortalité et celles des températures offre une excellente occasion d’approfondir notre connaissance des conséquences du changement climatique global pour la santé publique. La connaissance de ces changements a en même temps une très grande importance pour les historiens parce qu’elle fournit des informations pertinentes sur l’évolution du degré de vulnérabilité de la …
P2-163 Mortality after prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944–1945
Introduction Some studies have examined long term health effects of famine exposure during pregnancy but little is known about possible effects on adult survival. Methods We selected men with prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944–1945 from military examinations records (n=408 015) for births 1944–1946 in the Netherlands. We included men exposed in the immediate post-natal period (n=8225) and in the third (n=8197), the second (n=6809), and…
Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present
Social class, social mobility and mortality in the Netherlands, 1850–2004
The Success of the Civilization Offensive
Catrien Bijleveld, Frans van Poppel; The Success of the Civilization Offensive: Societal Adaptation of Reformed Boys in the Early Twentieth Century in the
A longitudinal study of health selection in marital transitions
"A Test of Durkheim's Theory of Suicide--Without Committing the "Ecological Fallacy
Les AA. s'efforcent d'evaluer le bien-fonde de certaines des theses defendues par Durkheim dans « Le Suicide » et plus particulierement ses analyses des differences d'attitude entre catholiques et protestants vis-a-vis du suicide. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees entre 1905 et 1910 aux Pays-Bas. Ils estiment que pour etablir des comparaisons entre les donnees statistiques il convient de distinguer les differents types de sui…
Socioeconomic inequalities in death from past to present
Love, necessity and opportunity
This article examines long-term trends in the pattern of age homogamy among first marriages, using vital registration data on all first marriages contracted between 1850 and 1993 in the Netherlands. After discussing the main mechanisms that could account for trends in age differences, we show that age differences between spouses have narrowed considerably between 1850 and 1970. After 1970 the trend becomes less clearcut
The Dutch Famine of 1944-45
During the last months of the Second World War the Western Netherlands was affected by an acute famine, known as the Hunger Winter. Food intake from all sources was reduced to extremely low levels. The effect on mortality at all ages was very large and immediate. By making use of unpublished data from the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics, estimates could be made of the changes in mortality by cause of death and age for both sexes. Mortality due…
Differential infant and child mortality in three Dutch regions, 1812-19091
New micro-level data have recently become available for three provinces of The Netherlands for the period 1812-1912, which allow the study of the evolution of socio-economic differentials in infant and childhood mortality. The authors found significant differences in the levels of infant mortality by social group between the three provinces, and a wide variety in the pattern of social inequality. This showed the importance of the regional environ…
The Contribution of Intermediary Factors to Marital Status Differences in Self-Reported Health
I. M. A. Joung, K. Stronks, H. van de Mheen, F. W. A. van Poppel, J. B. W. van der Meer, J. P. Mackenbach, The Contribution of Intermediary Factors to Marital Status Differences in Self-Reported Health, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 476-490
Mortality decline and reproductive change during the Dutch demographic transition
According to classic demographic transition theory, mortality change is the key factor that triggers a decline in fertility. Research on this topic has mostly relied on aggregate or time series data. Since fertility is based on the joint decisions of coupl
Widowhood, family size, and post-reproductive Mortality
Researchers from a number of disciplines have offered competing theories about the effects of childbearing on parents’ postreproductive longevity. The “disposable soma theory” argues that investments in somatic maintenance increase longevity but reduce childbearing. “Maternal depletion” models suggest that the rigors of childrearing increase mortality in later years. Other researchers consider continued childbearing a sign of healthy aging and a …
Widows, Widowers and Remarriage in Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
This article examines the Dutch pattern of remarriage during the nineteenth century, using data from the vital registration system (marriages and deaths), and the population registers for the cities of Breda (South Netherlands) and Gouda (West Netherlands). A group of 6500 widows and widowers were followed from the moment they were widowed until they either remarried or died whilst widowed. Migrating widows and widowers were also followed to thei…
Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition
We use a set of linked reproductive histories taken from Sweden, the Netherlands, and Spain for the period 1871–1960 to address key issues regarding how reproductive change was linked specifically to mortality and survivorship and more generally to individual agency. Using event-history analysis, this study investigates how the propensity to have additional children was influenced by the number of surviving offspring when reproductive decisions w…
The Rise of Age Homogamy in 19th Century Western Europe
In many parts of Western Europe the age at first marriage and the level of celibacy declined in the second half of the 19th century. This weakening of the European marriage pattern (EMP) can be interpreted as a “classic” response to the increase of the standard of living, but a more far‐reaching interpretation is that the erosion of the EMP was part of a cultural shift characterized by the rise of a new, less instrumental and more egalitarian vie…
The Family Factor in Jewish-Gentile Intermarriage
The tendency of members of many ethno-religious groups to marry within their group has been considered evidence for the persistent role of ascription in modern society. What is the role of the family of origin in this process? To answer this question, we study the marriage choices of Jews in the Netherlands, using a unique dataset and a novel analytical approach (i.e., multilevel analyses of sibling-data). Our models show that almost a third of t…
Years of temperature-related excess mortality in the Netherlands
Even in present-day high-income countries, there is a lot of evidence of a high degree of vulnerability of the population to both high and low outdoor temperatures. The magnitude of temperature-related mortality is strongly related to a wide variety of
Independent and additive association of prenatal famine exposure and intermediary life conditions with adult mortality between age 18-63 years
Late fertility decline in the Netherlands
Marriage Timing over the Generations
Strong relationships have been hypothesized between the timing of marriage and the familial environment of the couple. Sociologists have identified various mechanisms via which the age at marriage in the parental generation might be related to the age at marriage of the children. In our paper we study this relationship for historical populations. We use a dataset consisting of several hundreds of thousands of marriages contracted in three of the …
Mortality decline in The Netherlands in the period 1850-1992
Reconstructing the Extended Kin-network in the Netherlands with Genealogical Data
This paper discusses the use of genealogical data for the study of the historical development of kinship networks in the Netherlands 1830-1990. There are two main problems in using genealogies: the year of death is missing for a sizeable part of the research population; and the information available on all relevant branches is far from complete. A mixed estimation procedure was used to impute the missing years of death. Overcoming the second prob…
Religious differentials in marital fertility in The Hague (Netherlands) 1860-1909
Previous studies of the marital fertility transition in Europe have found religious differentials. Using data collected from the population registers of The Hague, our aim in this study is to search for answers to the following questions: whether religious differentials result from socio-economic characteristics; to what extent religious ideology explains the behaviour of religious groups; which proximate determinants account for the religious di…
Social class, social mobility and mortality in the Netherlands, 1850–2004
Diffusion of a social norm
The emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands over the period 1812-1922 was strongly influenced by the social norm that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected in the emergence of the housewife among the lower classes, especially at the close of the nineteenth century among wives of farmers. Women in urban municipalities, however, set the norm far earlier and differ…
Surviving the loss of the Parent in a Nineteenth-Century Dutch Provincial Town
Erik Beekink, Frans van Poppel, Aart C. Liefbroer; Surviving the loss of the Parent in a Nineteenth-Century Dutch Provincial Town, Journal of Social Histor
Infant mortality in mid‐19th century Amsterdam
This study uses a unique historical GIS dataset compiled from birth, death, and population register records for infants born in the city of Amsterdam in 1851 linked to micro‐level spatial data on housing, infrastructure, and health care. Cox's proportional hazards models and the concept of egocentric neighbourhoods were used to analyse the effects of various sociodemographic characteristics, residential environment, water supply, and health‐care …
Can resource dilution explain differences in height by birth order and family size? A study of 389,287 male recruits in twentieth-century Netherlands
Resource dilution' has been invoked as a possible mechanism to explain the inverse relation between sibship size and sibling heights in European populations (Öberg, 2015). Alternative explanations include confounding of the relation by other measured or unmeasured family characteristics including socio-economic position or birth order. It is difficult to quantify the contribution of any factor in isolation. To examine the question, we accessed da…
Regional mortality differences in Western Europe
Le développement séculaire de la mortalité aux jeunes âges dans le territoire du Bénélux
The authors attempt to study juvenile (and, more specifically, infant) mortality in XIXth and early XXth-century Bénélux. Using numerous observations, they are able to highlight the trends, regional and social variations and even take into account the environment. The main deadly determinant was artificial feeding which accounted for more deaths amongst the common people than in other categories where it was, moreover, more frequently used. This …
Late fertility decline in the Netherlands
Urban-Rural versus Regional Differences in Demographic Behavior
The demographic transition that occurred in the Netherlands between 1850 and 1960 is examined with particular reference to the relationship between changes in demographic indicators in urban areas and their surrounding rural areas. Consideration is given not only to general fertility but to mortality marital and extramarital fertility and marriage and marital dissolution. The author also attempts to identify regionally specific factors that affec…
Institutional Care for the Elderly in the 19th Century
This study focuses on the residents of three ecclesiastical homes for the elderly in The Hague in the i9th century. These homes took in poor members of the church who were at least 60 years old. Most of the elderly who resided in these homes had received poor relief before their admission. The main reason for their decision to request admission to a home was that they were no longer able to run a household independently. Most of the residents wer…
Measuring the effect of changing legislation on the frequency of divorce
This article discusses different procedures for measuring the effects of judicial changes on divorce rates. It presents an alternative model and applies it to a historical time series for the Netherlands. In this model, intervention variables were added to a statistical time-series (ARIMA) model. The conclusion of our analysis was that the effects of three judicial changes were only temporary
Marriage as a Farewell to Youth
During the period 1812‐1912, there were substantial differences in the age at marriage in the different social classes. Upper‐class males and farmers married at a later age, while the working classes got married a few years earlier. Among females, the differences between the social classes were less clear with the highest ages at marriage among females who married casual and unskilled labourers. Marrying late was especially characteristic of the …
The Dutch Famine of 1944-45
During the last months of the Second World War the Western Netherlands was affected by an acute famine, known as the Hunger Winter. Food intake from all sources was reduced to extremely low levels. The effect on mortality at all ages was very large and immediate. By making use of unpublished data from the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics, estimates could be made of the changes in mortality by cause of death and age for both sexes. Mortality due…
"La cause principale des différences c'est le crime"
During the last quarter of the 19th century, illegitimate children had much higher infant mortality than legitimate children. To investigate which factors played a role in this, we collected information on the household situation and the life course of all illegitimate children, born in the Dutch city of The Hague in the years 1850-1852. Use was made of birth and death certificates and of the population registers of the city. We compared our info…
Seasonality of work, religion and popular customs
Cet article présente une étude régionale et sociale des fluctuations saisonnières du mariage aux Pays-Bas, à partir des actes de mariage relevés pour une vingtaine de municipaliés entre 1812 et 1912. On commence par examiner les statistiques publiées qui sont disponibles par province et pour l'ensemble des Pays-Bas, puis on procède à une analyse plus détaillée selon les groupes socio-économiques et les régions. Il en ressort que deux facteurs fon…
Widows, Widowers and Remarriage in Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
This article examines the Dutch pattern of remarriage during the nineteenth century, using data from the vital registration system (marriages and deaths), and the population registers for the cities of Breda (South Netherlands) and Gouda (West Netherlands). A group of 6500 widows and widowers were followed from the moment they were widowed until they either remarried or died whilst widowed. Migrating widows and widowers were also followed to thei…
Mortality in the Netherland
"A Test of Durkheim's Theory of Suicide--Without Committing the "Ecological Fallacy
Les AA. s'efforcent d'evaluer le bien-fonde de certaines des theses defendues par Durkheim dans « Le Suicide » et plus particulierement ses analyses des differences d'attitude entre catholiques et protestants vis-a-vis du suicide. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees entre 1905 et 1910 aux Pays-Bas. Ils estiment que pour etablir des comparaisons entre les donnees statistiques il convient de distinguer les differents types de sui…
Family breakdown in nineteenth- century Netherlands
This is an analysis of divorce trends in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. "Use was made of a case-control research design in which the social characteristics of all marriages which ended in divorce were compared with those of a random sample from the marriages which ended in widowhood. The author analyzed a group of 2,300 marriages contracted in The Hague from their inception until their dissolution by death or divorc…
The development of cause-of-death registration in the Netherlands, 1865–1955
As elsewhere in Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century, general dissatisfaction among Dutch doctors with their position in society and with overall levels of public health led to an active endeavour to raise their own status and to improve the level of public hygiene. For the most part these sanitary reformers or hygienists were inspired by the ‘Bodentheorie’ (literally ‘soil theory’) of the Munich hygienist Max von Pettenkofer, which pos…
Reconstructing the Extended Kin-network in the Netherlands with Genealogical Data
This paper discusses the use of genealogical data for the study of the historical development of kinship networks in the Netherlands 1830-1990. There are two main problems in using genealogies: the year of death is missing for a sizeable part of the research population; and the information available on all relevant branches is far from complete. A mixed estimation procedure was used to impute the missing years of death. Overcoming the second prob…
The Contribution of Intermediary Factors to Marital Status Differences in Self-Reported Health
I. M. A. Joung, K. Stronks, H. van de Mheen, F. W. A. van Poppel, J. B. W. van der Meer, J. P. Mackenbach, The Contribution of Intermediary Factors to Marital Status Differences in Self-Reported Health, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 476-490
Vers une plus grande homogamie d'âge entre conjoints
Les contemporains comme les historiens ont considéré que la différence d'âge au mariage était un excellent indicateur du caractère de la relation conjugale. Sont ici analysés trois mécanismes qui pourraient déterminer l'âge de l'époux choisi : les préférences culturelles en faveur d'un âge donné, le rôle joué par les tierces personnes et la structure du «marché matrimonial ». Au cours du XIXe siècle, ces trois mécanismes ont joué si bien qu'ils o…
The Effects of Paternal Mortality on Sons' Social Mobility
Reply to Simpson
Mortality decline in The Netherlands in the period 1850-1992
A longitudinal study of health selection in marital transitions
L'étude des relations entre générations aux Pays-Bas
Naming for kin and the development of modern family structures
It is generally assumed that the conjugal family—the family that lived independently from extended kin—came into existence in the Netherlands relatively early, and that a new attitude towards children, characterized by an emphasis on the individuality of the child, developed at more or less the same time. To test whether this more narrow range of kin and the stronger emphasis on the individuality of the child translated itself also in a deviation…
The proper age to marry
The article compares publicly discussed norms concerning the proper age at marriage for men and women in nineteenth-century Netherlands, and the actual trends present in the empirical evidence about marriage age. Medical professionals (the hygienists) expressed the belief that marriage at too young an age was damaging both to public hygiene and the family's health; other commentators stressed the connection between young marriages and poverty. Ye…
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