Alain Gagnon
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77672 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alain Gagnon |
| NOMBRES | Alain |
| APELLIDO | Gagnon |
| FIRMA | GAGNON A |
| AFILIACIONES | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6758-9716 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 160 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
PRDH and IMPQ 1800–1849 Quebec Historical Family Reconstitution. Content, Design and Biographical Completeness
Since 1966, the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) has worked to create comprehensive genealogical data of the Quebec population. The PRDH longitudinal database, the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (RPQA), draws upon the French Catholic parish registers of the St. Lawrence Valley as its main source material. This family reconstitution covers the French Catholic population of Quebec up to 1799, along with deaths aft…
Family changes and residential mobility among immigrant and native-born populations
Much of the literature on immigrant relocation has focused on human and social capital and has often ignored the role of life-course events as triggers of internal migration and residential mobility. We know that family transitions are closely tied to resi
Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database
The 1831 census database is the newest addition to the series of 19th century Canadian census microdata available for social science research, thanks to a collaboration between the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) and FamilySearch. This article presents the work undertaken to prepare this database and the main challenges encountered in the course of this work. While the data extracted from the 1831 census are an invaluable …
Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends
This study examines the roles of age, period, and cohort in influenza mortality trends over the years 1959–2016 in the United States. First, we use Lexis surfaces based on Serfling models to highlight influenza mortality patterns as well as to identify lingering effects of early-life exposure to specific influenza virus subtypes (e.g., H1N1, H3N2). Second, we use age-period-cohort (APC) methods to explore APC linear trends and identify changes in…
Epidemic cycles and environmental pressure in colonial Quebec
OBJECTIVES: Research on historical populations in Europe finds that infectious disease epidemics appear to induce predictable cycles in age-specific mortality. We know little, however, about whether such cycles also occurred in less dense founder populations of North America. We used high-quality data on the Quebecois population from 1680 to 1798 to examine the extent to which age-specific mortality showed predictable epidemic cycles. We further …
Are immigrants healthier than native-born Canadians? A systematic review of the healthy immigrant effect in Canada
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Historical Demography Research Programme) (PRDH), founded in 1966 and based at the Département de Démographie of the Université de Montréal, has since its inception featured a central project, a family reconstitution database of Quebec’s Catholic population from 1621 to 1799 named the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (Population Register of Historic Quebec) (RPQA). This article, whic…
Socio-economic status and fertility decline
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demographers, but much less is known regarding their specific features and causes. In the study reported in this paper, we used longitudinal micro-level data for five local populations in Europe and North America to analyse the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility during the fertility transition. Using comparable analytical models and c…
À l'intersection du genre et de l'origine nationale
Les différences d'insertion dans l'emploi entre immigrés et natifs sont étroitement liées à l'origine nationale et au genre. Alors que le désavantage des hommes immigrés non occidentaux est souvent expliqué en termes de discrimination et de transférabilité du capital humain, celui des femmes immigrées repose plutôt sur un argumentaire culturel, selon lequel la participation des femmes au marché du travail serait le reflet des rôles de genre dans …
The consequences of sibling formation on survival and reproductive success across different ecological contexts
This article investigates the relationship between additional siblings and the probability of offspring survival, marriage, and fertility across the historical populations of the St Lawrence Valley in Quebec (1670–1799) and the Krummhörn region in Germany (1720–1874). Both populations existed in agriculturally based economies, but differ in important ways. The Krummhörn population faced a fixed supply of land, which was concentrated amongst a sma…
The first wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic among soldiers of the Canadian expeditionary force
OBJECTIVES: This article evaluates the evidence for the presence of the first, mild wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic among soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). METHODS: Death records for soldiers in the CEF who died in Canada in 1917 and 1918 were extracted from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and record-linked to the Canada War Graves Registers, Circumstances of Casualty database. Monthly mortality rates from pneumonia a…
Pathways to Health and Well-being
Socioeconomic fertility differentials in a late transition setting
Historically, the French Canadian population of Quebec, Canada, is known for its high fertility, which lasted well into the 20th century, and for its late fertility transition. Within Quebec, regions such as Saguenay are known for having experienced an eve
The relationship between incarceration and premature adult mortality
Are Stepparents Always Evil? Parental Death, Remarriage, and Child Survival in Demographically Saturated Krummhörn (1720-1859) and Expanding Québec (1670-1750)
Parental death precipitates a cascade of events leading to more or less detrimental exposures, from the sudden and dramatic interruption of parental care to cohabitation with stepparents and siblings in a recomposed family. This article compares the effect of early parental loss on child survival in the past in the Krummhörn region of East Frisia (Germany) and among the French Canadian settlers of the Saint Lawrence Valley (Québec, Canada). The K…
Effect of birth season on longevity
OBJECTIVES: Individuals with fetal growth restrictions may become unhealthy as adult if they live in a nutritionally rich environment. Yet, there is little evidence for the counterpart that profuse resources during early development may prove detrimental in an impoverished adult environment. Using birth season as a proxy for nutrition in utero, this study tests whether early life effects on longevity are conditional on the environment in which pe…
Child and young adult-headed households in the context of the Aids epidemic in Zimbabwe, 1988–2006
The emergence of child-headed households (CHH) is considered an indicator of the erosion of the traditional safety nets in sub-Saharan African countries and a direct consequence of the increasing number of orphans in the region. Using four available waves of the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys (1988, 1994, 1999, 2005/2006), we find that the proportion of households with no adults remained stable in the last years, although the number of o…
Are Stepmothers Evil or Simply Unskilled? Infant Death Clustering in Recomposed Families
We measure the concentration of infant deaths in families in the historical populations of Krummhörn, Germany and Québec, Canada in order to investigate whether mothers in recomposed families differ regarding their maternal quality. In particular, we are interested in whether stepmothers in Krummhörn are responsible for a diminution in the survival of their stepchildren because they poorly substitute maternal child care or because they disadvanta…
Early life socioeconomic conditions in rural areas and old-age mortality in twentieth-century Quebec
Once were farmers
Why Should Men and Women Marry and Have Children
Using the Canadian Community and Health Survey (2000), this study examines self-perceived stress across marital and parental statuses, adjusting for age, education, work status, income and sense of community belonging. Results show that fatherhood increases perceived stress regardless of marital status, particularly among singles. Motherhood does not affect perceived stress among married or cohabitating women but single and post-married mothers e…
The Case for Multinational Federalism
Throughout the world, liberal-democracies are grappling with increasing claims made in the name of minority national, socio-cultural and ethno-cultural identities that seek greater recognition in the institutions of the nation-state. This work inserts itself into debates centred on diversity through a normative and empirical analytical assessment of the political sociology of multinational democracies. The main thread of the arguments put forward…
Is there a trade‐off between fertility and longevity? A comparative study of women from three large historical databases accounting for mortality selection
Frontier populations provide exceptional opportunities to test the hypothesis of a trade‐off between fertility and longevity. In such populations, mechanisms favoring reproduction usually find fertile ground, and if these mechanisms reduce longevity, demographers should observe higher postreproductive mortality among highly fertile women. We test this hypothesis using complete female reproductive histories from three large demographic databases: …
Does exposure to infectious diseases in infancy affect old-age mortality? Evidence from a pre-industrial population
Federalism, citizenship, and Quebec
Does exposure to infectious diseases in infancy affect old-age mortality? Evidence from a pre-industrial population
The relationship between incarceration and premature adult mortality
Early life socioeconomic conditions in rural areas and old-age mortality in twentieth-century Quebec
Socio-economic status and fertility decline
The timings of historical fertility transitions in different regions are well understood by demographers, but much less is known regarding their specific features and causes. In the study reported in this paper, we used longitudinal micro-level data for five local populations in Europe and North America to analyse the relationship between socio-economic status and fertility during the fertility transition. Using comparable analytical models and c…
The consequences of sibling formation on survival and reproductive success across different ecological contexts
This article investigates the relationship between additional siblings and the probability of offspring survival, marriage, and fertility across the historical populations of the St Lawrence Valley in Quebec (1670–1799) and the Krummhörn region in Germany (1720–1874). Both populations existed in agriculturally based economies, but differ in important ways. The Krummhörn population faced a fixed supply of land, which was concentrated amongst a sma…
Plaidoyer pour l'interculturalisme
Une bibliothà ̈que numérique unique et originale dans le monde francophone en sciences sociales et humaines, développée en collaboration avec l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, fondée et dirigée par Jean-Marie Tremblay, bénévole, professeur de sociologie au département des sciences humaines du Cégep de Chicoutimi
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique
The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Historical Demography Research Programme) (PRDH), founded in 1966 and based at the Département de Démographie of the Université de Montréal, has since its inception featured a central project, a family reconstitution database of Quebec’s Catholic population from 1621 to 1799 named the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (Population Register of Historic Quebec) (RPQA). This article, whic…
Once were farmers
Advances in the Study of the Relationship Between Children and Their Pet Dogs
We report in this paper data from research carried out in two fields: 1. the study of the characteristics and mechanisms of the spontaneous child-dog interactions and communications in a familiar setting, home and immediate surroundings, for both individuals, and 2. an experimental analysis of the sensory characteristics that regulate child-dog interactions. The main results can be summarized as follows:1. Of the child's behavioral and verbal pat…
À l'intersection du genre et de l'origine nationale
Les différences d'insertion dans l'emploi entre immigrés et natifs sont étroitement liées à l'origine nationale et au genre. Alors que le désavantage des hommes immigrés non occidentaux est souvent expliqué en termes de discrimination et de transférabilité du capital humain, celui des femmes immigrées repose plutôt sur un argumentaire culturel, selon lequel la participation des femmes au marché du travail serait le reflet des rôles de genre dans …
Significance, structure, and gender differences in life domains of college students
Influence des facteurs familiaux et environnementaux sur la longévité au Québec ancien
Les données de la démographique historique constituent un excellent cadre pour l'examen des composantes familiales et environnementales de la longévité. À partir des données du Registre de population du Québec ancien , élaboré par le Programme de recherche en démographie historique de l'Université de Montréal, nous avons exploré la relation entre la mortalité des personnes et la longévité de leur fratrie, de leurs parents et de leur conjoint dans…
Pathways to Health and Well-being
Are Stepparents Always Evil? Parental Death, Remarriage, and Child Survival in Demographically Saturated Krummhörn (1720-1859) and Expanding Québec (1670-1750)
Parental death precipitates a cascade of events leading to more or less detrimental exposures, from the sudden and dramatic interruption of parental care to cohabitation with stepparents and siblings in a recomposed family. This article compares the effect of early parental loss on child survival in the past in the Krummhörn region of East Frisia (Germany) and among the French Canadian settlers of the Saint Lawrence Valley (Québec, Canada). The K…
Creating the 1831 Canadian Census Database
The 1831 census database is the newest addition to the series of 19th century Canadian census microdata available for social science research, thanks to a collaboration between the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) and FamilySearch. This article presents the work undertaken to prepare this database and the main challenges encountered in the course of this work. While the data extracted from the 1831 census are an invaluable …
Socioeconomic fertility differentials in a late transition setting
Historically, the French Canadian population of Quebec, Canada, is known for its high fertility, which lasted well into the 20th century, and for its late fertility transition. Within Quebec, regions such as Saguenay are known for having experienced an eve
Why Should Men and Women Marry and Have Children
Using the Canadian Community and Health Survey (2000), this study examines self-perceived stress across marital and parental statuses, adjusting for age, education, work status, income and sense of community belonging. Results show that fatherhood increases perceived stress regardless of marital status, particularly among singles. Motherhood does not affect perceived stress among married or cohabitating women but single and post-married mothers e…
Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends
This study examines the roles of age, period, and cohort in influenza mortality trends over the years 1959–2016 in the United States. First, we use Lexis surfaces based on Serfling models to highlight influenza mortality patterns as well as to identify lingering effects of early-life exposure to specific influenza virus subtypes (e.g., H1N1, H3N2). Second, we use age-period-cohort (APC) methods to explore APC linear trends and identify changes in…
Transmission of migration propensity increases genetic divergence between populations
The advent of molecular genetics has brought invaluable information, which is now routinely used by anthropologists in their attempt to reconstruct our demographic past. Since mitochondrial DNA loci are much more similar between populations than are Y‐chromosome loci, it is suggested that women had a much higher migration rate than men throughout history. Based on an examination of intergenerational migration patterns in three large demographic d…
Testing isonymy with paternal and maternal lineages in the early Québec population
Isonymy is an ingenious and useful approach to studying kinship in human populations. However, it relies on assumptions that are difficult to verify. In this study, we provided a way to assess, in the early Québec population, the impact of factors such as polyphyletism, unbalanced sex‐ratio among founders, and age differentials between spouses. All data were taken from the Population Register of Early Québec , which contains births, marriages, an…
Family changes and residential mobility among immigrant and native-born populations
Much of the literature on immigrant relocation has focused on human and social capital and has often ignored the role of life-course events as triggers of internal migration and residential mobility. We know that family transitions are closely tied to resi
Third Parties
(1981). THIRD PARTIES: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. American Review of Canadian Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 37-63
From Heartland to Periphery
This article examines the shifting political alliances in contemporary Quebec which both jeopardise the position of the Parti québécois and threaten the interests of the new middle class which became extremely powerful in the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout the article the shifting pattern of class alliances in Quebec are viewed as integrally related to the global crisis and Quebec's peripheral position in the capitalist economy. RESUMEN Del centro a…
The Development and Nationalization of Social Sciences in Quebec
National Political Science Associations
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Advances in the Study of the Relationship Between Children and Their Pet Dogs
We report in this paper data from research carried out in two fields: 1. the study of the characteristics and mechanisms of the spontaneous child-dog interactions and communications in a familiar setting, home and immediate surroundings, for both individuals, and 2. an experimental analysis of the sensory characteristics that regulate child-dog interactions. The main results can be summarized as follows:1. Of the child's behavioral and verbal pat…
Significance, structure, and gender differences in life domains of college students
Intergenerational correlation of effective family size in early Québec (Canada)
The use of a comprehensive demographic database of the early French Canadian population (1608–1800) reveals an almost null impact of parents' fertility on children's fertility (r ≃ 0.01–0.05), which contradicts the commonly held view that family size has a tendency to run in families. However, in this population, there is a clear transmission from one generation to the next of the effective family size within a given geographical area (EFS, defin…
Intergenerational correlation of effective family size in early Québec (Canada)
The use of a comprehensive demographic database of the early French Canadian population (1608–1800) reveals an almost null impact of parents' fertility on children's fertility ( r ≃ 0.01–0.05), which contradicts the commonly held view that family size has a tendency to run in families. However, in this population, there is a clear transmission from one generation to the next of the effective family size within a given geographical area (EFS, defi…
Fragmentation of the Qu bec population genetic pool (Canada)
The 6 million French-Canadians of Québec derive from a relatively small number of founders. Consequently, some hereditary diseases, which may or may not present a worldwide distribution, have been detected in high frequency in this population. Several studies, however, indicate a nonuniform distribution of these diseases through the population, suggesting that the French-Canadian founder effect has been geographically stratified. Here we explore …
Testing isonymy with paternal and maternal lineages in the early Québec population
Isonymy is an ingenious and useful approach to studying kinship in human populations. However, it relies on assumptions that are difficult to verify. In this study, we provided a way to assess, in the early Québec population, the impact of factors such as polyphyletism, unbalanced sex‐ratio among founders, and age differentials between spouses. All data were taken from the Population Register of Early Québec , which contains births, marriages, an…
Mother’s Death and Child Survival
The aim of this paper is to account for the effect of mother's death on child survival in a historical population. Using comprehensive data on the early French Canadian population of Quebec, evidence is provided for a higher risk of dying for motherless children that remains significant over all childhood and long after the death of the mother. The specific effect of the loss of maternal care was estimated by comparing mortality before and after …
Les agressions en milieu psychiatrique. Vécu et perceptions des intervenants du Pavillon Roland-Saucier du Complexe hospitalier de la Sagamie
Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude effectuée au Pavillon Roland-Saucier, aile psychiatrique du Complexe hospitalier de la Sagamie. Le but poursuivi était d'explorer, par une approche phénoménologique, la problématique des agressions dont les intervenants étaient victimes de la part de bénéficiaires, et particulièrement l'impact de ces agressions sur leur vie professionnelle. Trente intervenants de différentes catégories professionnell…
Transmission of migration propensity increases genetic divergence between populations
The advent of molecular genetics has brought invaluable information, which is now routinely used by anthropologists in their attempt to reconstruct our demographic past. Since mitochondrial DNA loci are much more similar between populations than are Y‐chromosome loci, it is suggested that women had a much higher migration rate than men throughout history. Based on an examination of intergenerational migration patterns in three large demographic d…
Plaidoyer pour l'interculturalisme
Une bibliothà ̈que numérique unique et originale dans le monde francophone en sciences sociales et humaines, développée en collaboration avec l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, fondée et dirigée par Jean-Marie Tremblay, bénévole, professeur de sociologie au département des sciences humaines du Cégep de Chicoutimi
Federalism, citizenship, and Quebec
Influence des facteurs familiaux et environnementaux sur la longévité au Québec ancien
Les données de la démographique historique constituent un excellent cadre pour l'examen des composantes familiales et environnementales de la longévité. À partir des données du Registre de population du Québec ancien , élaboré par le Programme de recherche en démographie historique de l'Université de Montréal, nous avons exploré la relation entre la mortalité des personnes et la longévité de leur fratrie, de leurs parents et de leur conjoint dans…
The Case for Multinational Federalism
Throughout the world, liberal-democracies are grappling with increasing claims made in the name of minority national, socio-cultural and ethno-cultural identities that seek greater recognition in the institutions of the nation-state. This work inserts itself into debates centred on diversity through a normative and empirical analytical assessment of the political sociology of multinational democracies. The main thread of the arguments put forward…
Is there a trade‐off between fertility and longevity? A comparative study of women from three large historical databases accounting for mortality selection
Frontier populations provide exceptional opportunities to test the hypothesis of a trade‐off between fertility and longevity. In such populations, mechanisms favoring reproduction usually find fertile ground, and if these mechanisms reduce longevity, demographers should observe higher postreproductive mortality among highly fertile women. We test this hypothesis using complete female reproductive histories from three large demographic databases: …
Does exposure to infectious diseases in infancy affect old-age mortality? Evidence from a pre-industrial population
Why Should Men and Women Marry and Have Children
Using the Canadian Community and Health Survey (2000), this study examines self-perceived stress across marital and parental statuses, adjusting for age, education, work status, income and sense of community belonging. Results show that fatherhood increases perceived stress regardless of marital status, particularly among singles. Motherhood does not affect perceived stress among married or cohabitating women but single and post-married mothers e…
Once were farmers
Effect of birth season on longevity
OBJECTIVES: Individuals with fetal growth restrictions may become unhealthy as adult if they live in a nutritionally rich environment. Yet, there is little evidence for the counterpart that profuse resources during early development may prove detrimental in an impoverished adult environment. Using birth season as a proxy for nutrition in utero, this study tests whether early life effects on longevity are conditional on the environment in which pe…
Child and young adult-headed households in the context of the Aids epidemic in Zimbabwe, 1988–2006
The emergence of child-headed households (CHH) is considered an indicator of the erosion of the traditional safety nets in sub-Saharan African countries and a direct consequence of the increasing number of orphans in the region. Using four available waves of the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Surveys (1988, 1994, 1999, 2005/2006), we find that the proportion of households with no adults remained stable in the last years, although the number of o…
Are Stepmothers Evil or Simply Unskilled? Infant Death Clustering in Recomposed Families
We measure the concentration of infant deaths in families in the historical populations of Krummhörn, Germany and Québec, Canada in order to investigate whether mothers in recomposed families differ regarding their maternal quality. In particular, we are interested in whether stepmothers in Krummhörn are responsible for a diminution in the survival of their stepchildren because they poorly substitute maternal child care or because they disadvanta…
Early life socioeconomic conditions in rural areas and old-age mortality in twentieth-century Quebec
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