Theo Engelen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 749094 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Theo Engelen |
| NOMBRES | Theo |
| APELLIDO | Engelen |
| FIRMA | ENGELEN T |
| AFILIACIONES | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Chasing moving targets
This special issue marks the thirtieth anniversary of The History of the Family and celebrates the retirement of Jan Kok, whose scholarship has profoundly influenced historical family demography over the past decades. Using life course theory as its central organising framework, this introductory article applies core concepts such as life span development, agency, time and place, timing, and linked lives as analytical instruments to examine both …
East is East and West is West? Comparing Historical Infant Mortality Rates in Taiwan and the Netherlands
This article compares infant mortality rates in two historical populations: one in Europe (the city of Nijmegen) and the other in China (the city of Lugang). The author investigates whether the Malthusian divide — between a preventive demographic system in Western Europe and a positive system in Asia — can be substantiated. The conclusion is that the differences in infant mortality were not as large or as structural as often assumed. Furthermore,…
The Rhythm of Conceptions. Seasonality of Births in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1800–1940
The seasonality of births provides us with insights into the economic, cultural, and biological effects on the private lives of our predecessors in time. This comparison between two culturally very different societies results in the conclusion that there is an amazing geographic and historical stability in the patterns of seasonality in conceptions, both in Taiwan and in the Netherlands. Economic and cultural variables only have a minor influence…
Siblings and life transitions
This special section contains a collection of articles that study how children are affected by their sibship size and composition by examining their influence on several demographic outcomes across time and space. The importance of the specific historical context, as put forward by the conditional or gendered resource dilution model, seems to be justified, as inheritance practices and gender preferences were determining demographic outcomes.While…
What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940
This study focuses on the seasonal pattern of marriages in seven provinces of the Netherlands from 1810 to 1940. We ask whether the prevalence of May as the preferred marriage month was diminishing when industrialization changed the course of workload over the year. And if so, when did this occur, and were there differences between the regions? Given the ban on marriages during Lent and Advent, by studying the number of marriages during these mo…
How unique is the Western European marriage pattern? A comparison of nuptiality in historical Europe and the contemporary Arab world
In this article a comparison is drawn between the historical Western European marriage pattern (WEMP), and more recent trends in nuptiality in Arab countries. This comparison makes clear that marriage behavior in the present-day Arab world shows striking similarities to nuptiality patterns which have been described by Hajnal and adherents as typically Western European. Due to a combination of economic hardship, ever growing costs in the marriage …
Fertility and Fertility Control in Pre-Revolutionary China
A revisionist view argues that despite early and nearly universal marriage, fertility in pre-Revolutionary China was no higher than in Europe because of deliberate control within marriage. The evidence, however, confirms the received view: Because of early and universal marriage, fertility in China was far higher than that in Europe and would have been even higher had it not been for what Thomas Malthus called "positive checks." Little or no deli…
Low fertility in premodern China
n Contains fulltext :\n 42991.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
The family strategies concept
Contains fulltext : 61418.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Labor strategies of families
Contains fulltext : 60860.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Permanent Celibacy and Late Marriage in the Netherlands, 1890-1960
Demographers usually assume that the proportion never marrying and age at marriage vary together, since permanent celibacy is held to be merely the consequence of delayed marriage. By observing a representative sample extracted from the cohorts born between 1890 and 1909 in the Netherlands, Theo ENGELEN and Jan KOK show that this is not always the case. In thefirst half of the twentieth century, very high levels of permanent celibacy coexisted wi…
Permanent Celibacy and Late Marriage in the Netherlands, 1890-1960
Cet article traite des deux mécanismes bien connus de limitation de l’accès au mariage en Europe. La question est de savoir si le célibat définitif est une conséquence non intentionnelle du report du mariage, ou s’il peut être vu comme un phénomène plus ou moins indépendant. Nous utilisons un échantillon représentatif des générations nées aux Pays-Bas de 1890 à 1909 pour comparer les trajectoires biographiques des personnes qui ne se sont jamais …
Célibat définitif et mariage tardif aux Pays-Bas, 1890-1960
Cet article traite des deux mécanismes bien connus de limitation de l'accès au mariage en Europe. La question est de savoir si le célibat définitif est une conséquence non intentionnelle du report du mariage, ou s'il peut être vu comme un phénomène plus ou moins indépendant. Nous utilisons un échantillon représentatif des générations nées aux Pays-Bas de 1890 à 1909 pour comparer les trajectoires biographiques des personnes qui ne se sont jamais …
Labour Strategies of Families
Phyllis Moen and Elaine Wethington were absolutely right when they called family strategies “the intuitively appealing metaphor for family response to structural barriers”. This appeal probably explains the avalanche of studies on the subject since the 1970s and especially since the 1980s. The last contribution, to my knowledge, is a collection of articles edited by Laurence Fontaine and Jurgen Schlumbohm in 2000. I will not even try to outline t…
The fertility decline in the Dutch province of Limburg, 1880–1960
The Dutch province of Limburg is mentioned in the European Fertility Project studies because of the fact that its fertility was remarkably high well into the twentieth century and declined only gradually. This article explores the structural background of changes in reproductive behavior in Limburg. The province is economically differentiated in industrial areas and traditional agricultural regions. Also, there is a clear cultural heterogeneity. …
Introduction
The concept of ‘family strategies’ has yielded much valuable research when used in the classic ‘quantitative’ and ‘anthropological’ approaches to the history of family life. Its continued use as a research concept requires, however, that significantly more attention be paid to the relationships between families as social units and their individual members, to the great variety of families and households, and to the different motives that guided f…
Permanent Celibacy and Late Marriage in the Netherlands, 1890-1960
Demographers usually assume that the proportion never marrying and age at marriage vary together, since permanent celibacy is held to be merely the consequence of delayed marriage. By observing a representative sample extracted from the cohorts born between 1890 and 1909 in the Netherlands, Theo ENGELEN and Jan KOK show that this is not always the case. In thefirst half of the twentieth century, very high levels of permanent celibacy coexisted wi…
Siblings and life transitions
This special section contains a collection of articles that study how children are affected by their sibship size and composition by examining their influence on several demographic outcomes across time and space. The importance of the specific historical context, as put forward by the conditional or gendered resource dilution model, seems to be justified, as inheritance practices and gender preferences were determining demographic outcomes.While…
How unique is the Western European marriage pattern? A comparison of nuptiality in historical Europe and the contemporary Arab world
In this article a comparison is drawn between the historical Western European marriage pattern (WEMP), and more recent trends in nuptiality in Arab countries. This comparison makes clear that marriage behavior in the present-day Arab world shows striking similarities to nuptiality patterns which have been described by Hajnal and adherents as typically Western European. Due to a combination of economic hardship, ever growing costs in the marriage …
Célibat définitif et mariage tardif aux Pays-Bas, 1890-1960
Cet article traite des deux mécanismes bien connus de limitation de l'accès au mariage en Europe. La question est de savoir si le célibat définitif est une conséquence non intentionnelle du report du mariage, ou s'il peut être vu comme un phénomène plus ou moins indépendant. Nous utilisons un échantillon représentatif des générations nées aux Pays-Bas de 1890 à 1909 pour comparer les trajectoires biographiques des personnes qui ne se sont jamais …
Labour Strategies of Families
Phyllis Moen and Elaine Wethington were absolutely right when they called family strategies “the intuitively appealing metaphor for family response to structural barriers”. This appeal probably explains the avalanche of studies on the subject since the 1970s and especially since the 1980s. The last contribution, to my knowledge, is a collection of articles edited by Laurence Fontaine and Jurgen Schlumbohm in 2000. I will not even try to outline t…
The family strategies concept
Contains fulltext : 61418.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Introduction
The concept of ‘family strategies’ has yielded much valuable research when used in the classic ‘quantitative’ and ‘anthropological’ approaches to the history of family life. Its continued use as a research concept requires, however, that significantly more attention be paid to the relationships between families as social units and their individual members, to the great variety of families and households, and to the different motives that guided f…
Fertility and Fertility Control in Pre-Revolutionary China
A revisionist view argues that despite early and nearly universal marriage, fertility in pre-Revolutionary China was no higher than in Europe because of deliberate control within marriage. The evidence, however, confirms the received view: Because of early and universal marriage, fertility in China was far higher than that in Europe and would have been even higher had it not been for what Thomas Malthus called "positive checks." Little or no deli…
Low fertility in premodern China
n Contains fulltext :\n 42991.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Labor strategies of families
Contains fulltext : 60860.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Permanent Celibacy and Late Marriage in the Netherlands, 1890-1960
Cet article traite des deux mécanismes bien connus de limitation de l’accès au mariage en Europe. La question est de savoir si le célibat définitif est une conséquence non intentionnelle du report du mariage, ou s’il peut être vu comme un phénomène plus ou moins indépendant. Nous utilisons un échantillon représentatif des générations nées aux Pays-Bas de 1890 à 1909 pour comparer les trajectoires biographiques des personnes qui ne se sont jamais …
The fertility decline in the Dutch province of Limburg, 1880–1960
The Dutch province of Limburg is mentioned in the European Fertility Project studies because of the fact that its fertility was remarkably high well into the twentieth century and declined only gradually. This article explores the structural background of changes in reproductive behavior in Limburg. The province is economically differentiated in industrial areas and traditional agricultural regions. Also, there is a clear cultural heterogeneity. …
Introduction
The concept of ‘family strategies’ has yielded much valuable research when used in the classic ‘quantitative’ and ‘anthropological’ approaches to the history of family life. Its continued use as a research concept requires, however, that significantly more attention be paid to the relationships between families as social units and their individual members, to the great variety of families and households, and to the different motives that guided f…
Labour Strategies of Families
Phyllis Moen and Elaine Wethington were absolutely right when they called family strategies “the intuitively appealing metaphor for family response to structural barriers”. This appeal probably explains the avalanche of studies on the subject since the 1970s and especially since the 1980s. The last contribution, to my knowledge, is a collection of articles edited by Laurence Fontaine and Jurgen Schlumbohm in 2000. I will not even try to outline t…
Permanent Celibacy and Late Marriage in the Netherlands, 1890-1960
Demographers usually assume that the proportion never marrying and age at marriage vary together, since permanent celibacy is held to be merely the consequence of delayed marriage. By observing a representative sample extracted from the cohorts born between 1890 and 1909 in the Netherlands, Theo ENGELEN and Jan KOK show that this is not always the case. In thefirst half of the twentieth century, very high levels of permanent celibacy coexisted wi…
Permanent Celibacy and Late Marriage in the Netherlands, 1890-1960
Cet article traite des deux mécanismes bien connus de limitation de l’accès au mariage en Europe. La question est de savoir si le célibat définitif est une conséquence non intentionnelle du report du mariage, ou s’il peut être vu comme un phénomène plus ou moins indépendant. Nous utilisons un échantillon représentatif des générations nées aux Pays-Bas de 1890 à 1909 pour comparer les trajectoires biographiques des personnes qui ne se sont jamais …
Célibat définitif et mariage tardif aux Pays-Bas, 1890-1960
Cet article traite des deux mécanismes bien connus de limitation de l'accès au mariage en Europe. La question est de savoir si le célibat définitif est une conséquence non intentionnelle du report du mariage, ou s'il peut être vu comme un phénomène plus ou moins indépendant. Nous utilisons un échantillon représentatif des générations nées aux Pays-Bas de 1890 à 1909 pour comparer les trajectoires biographiques des personnes qui ne se sont jamais …
The family strategies concept
Contains fulltext : 61418.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Labor strategies of families
Contains fulltext : 60860.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Low fertility in premodern China
n Contains fulltext :\n 42991.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Fertility and Fertility Control in Pre-Revolutionary China
A revisionist view argues that despite early and nearly universal marriage, fertility in pre-Revolutionary China was no higher than in Europe because of deliberate control within marriage. The evidence, however, confirms the received view: Because of early and universal marriage, fertility in China was far higher than that in Europe and would have been even higher had it not been for what Thomas Malthus called "positive checks." Little or no deli…
How unique is the Western European marriage pattern? A comparison of nuptiality in historical Europe and the contemporary Arab world
In this article a comparison is drawn between the historical Western European marriage pattern (WEMP), and more recent trends in nuptiality in Arab countries. This comparison makes clear that marriage behavior in the present-day Arab world shows striking similarities to nuptiality patterns which have been described by Hajnal and adherents as typically Western European. Due to a combination of economic hardship, ever growing costs in the marriage …
What the Seasons Tell Us. The Monthly Movement of Marriages, Economic Modernization, and Secularization in the Netherlands, 1810-1940
This study focuses on the seasonal pattern of marriages in seven provinces of the Netherlands from 1810 to 1940. We ask whether the prevalence of May as the preferred marriage month was diminishing when industrialization changed the course of workload over the year. And if so, when did this occur, and were there differences between the regions? Given the ban on marriages during Lent and Advent, by studying the number of marriages during these mo…
Siblings and life transitions
This special section contains a collection of articles that study how children are affected by their sibship size and composition by examining their influence on several demographic outcomes across time and space. The importance of the specific historical context, as put forward by the conditional or gendered resource dilution model, seems to be justified, as inheritance practices and gender preferences were determining demographic outcomes.While…
The Rhythm of Conceptions. Seasonality of Births in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1800–1940
The seasonality of births provides us with insights into the economic, cultural, and biological effects on the private lives of our predecessors in time. This comparison between two culturally very different societies results in the conclusion that there is an amazing geographic and historical stability in the patterns of seasonality in conceptions, both in Taiwan and in the Netherlands. Economic and cultural variables only have a minor influence…
East is East and West is West? Comparing Historical Infant Mortality Rates in Taiwan and the Netherlands
This article compares infant mortality rates in two historical populations: one in Europe (the city of Nijmegen) and the other in China (the city of Lugang). The author investigates whether the Malthusian divide — between a preventive demographic system in Western Europe and a positive system in Asia — can be substantiated. The conclusion is that the differences in infant mortality were not as large or as structural as often assumed. Furthermore,…
Chasing moving targets
This special issue marks the thirtieth anniversary of The History of the Family and celebrates the retirement of Jan Kok, whose scholarship has profoundly influenced historical family demography over the past decades. Using life course theory as its central organising framework, this introductory article applies core concepts such as life span development, agency, time and place, timing, and linked lives as analytical instruments to examine both …
Sociology (13 obras) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (9 obras) · Demography (8 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (5 obras)