Christa Matthys
Biographic Data
| ID | 1175445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christa Matthys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christa |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthys |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHYS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Introduction
Systematic research on urban-rural variation in demographic behavior is necessary to overcome dichotomous views resulting from studying cities and the countryside separately. After all, a web of interactions facilitating the diffusion of ideas and behavior connects cities and rural areas. That is why it is especially important to study the comportment of migrants moving between urban and rural environments. In line with this argument five case st…
Pay the midwife! The cost of delivery in nineteenth-century rural West Flanders
This article focuses on the determinants of the economic cost of at-home childbirth in Flanders in the nineteenth century. Literature on the remuneration of medical professionals in the nineteenth century is sparse. Yet the few existing studies show that fixed rates per delivery did not exist during the nineteenth century. Before that time, pricing was influenced by factors such as the professional experience of the midwife, the distance between …
Discourses versus Life Courses
This article combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to study the effect of rural–urban migration on the sexual behavior of servants in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Flanders. In the qualitative part, I compare various discourses on servants’ extramarital behavior to sketch the ideological context which affected women’s agency. Contemporaries were commonly convinced that urban servants more often became pregnant out-of-wedlock th…
La fécondité légitime dans différents agrosystèmes sociaux en Flandre, 1830-1930
Les comportements de fécondité des régions rurales ont été perçus comme statiques, conservateurs et uniformes. Cet article analyse les changements et la variation relative de la fécondité légitime de deux agrosystèmes sociaux en Flandre. En nous appuyant sur des données individuelles longitudinales provenant des registres de population, nous analysons le cours de la baisse de la fécondité à partir de deux études de cas. En outre, nous utilisons l…
Lost in registration? Missing occupations of single women in the Bruges countryside, c.1814
The absence of occupational titles for women in historical censuses has stymied numerous scholars. Various authors have explained this phenomenon as carelessness or bias on the part of the census-takers. Women's work was of little interest to the authorities and census officials focused their efforts upon the activities of the head of household. While source triangulation can be a useful tool for uncovering ‘hidden’ employment of women, it is oft…
Domestic servants and diffusion of fertility control in Flanders, 1830–1930
This article uses a mixed method approach to analyse whether urban domestic service functioned as a diffusion channel in the fertility decline. The central hypothesis is that nineteenth century female, rural-born domestic servants were influenced by the reproductive habits of their middle and upper-class employers, who were vanguards in the adoption of family size limitation within marriage. This happened via a process of social learning, a mecha…
Migrants and the Diffusion of Low Marital Fertility in Belgium
Although the diffusion of fertility behavior between different social strata in historical communities has received considerable attention in recent studies, the relationship between the diffusion of fertility behavior and the diffusion of people (migration) during the nineteenth century remains largely underexplored. Evidence from population registers compiled in the Historical Database of the Liège Region, covering the period of 1812 to 1900, r…
Lost in registration? Missing occupations of single women in the Bruges countryside, c.1814
The absence of occupational titles for women in historical censuses has stymied numerous scholars. Various authors have explained this phenomenon as carelessness or bias on the part of the census-takers. Women's work was of little interest to the authorities and census officials focused their efforts upon the activities of the head of household. While source triangulation can be a useful tool for uncovering ‘hidden’ employment of women, it is oft…
Domestic servants and diffusion of fertility control in Flanders, 1830–1930
This article uses a mixed method approach to analyse whether urban domestic service functioned as a diffusion channel in the fertility decline. The central hypothesis is that nineteenth century female, rural-born domestic servants were influenced by the reproductive habits of their middle and upper-class employers, who were vanguards in the adoption of family size limitation within marriage. This happened via a process of social learning, a mecha…
Migrants and the Diffusion of Low Marital Fertility in Belgium
Although the diffusion of fertility behavior between different social strata in historical communities has received considerable attention in recent studies, the relationship between the diffusion of fertility behavior and the diffusion of people (migration) during the nineteenth century remains largely underexplored. Evidence from population registers compiled in the Historical Database of the Liège Region, covering the period of 1812 to 1900, r…
Migrants and the Diffusion of Low Marital Fertility in Belgium
Although the diffusion of fertility behavior between different social strata in historical communities has received considerable attention in recent studies, the relationship between the diffusion of fertility behavior and the diffusion of people (migration) during the nineteenth century remains largely underexplored. Evidence from population registers compiled in the Historical Database of the Liège Region, covering the period of 1812 to 1900, r…
Domestic servants and diffusion of fertility control in Flanders, 1830–1930
This article uses a mixed method approach to analyse whether urban domestic service functioned as a diffusion channel in the fertility decline. The central hypothesis is that nineteenth century female, rural-born domestic servants were influenced by the reproductive habits of their middle and upper-class employers, who were vanguards in the adoption of family size limitation within marriage. This happened via a process of social learning, a mecha…
La fécondité légitime dans différents agrosystèmes sociaux en Flandre, 1830-1930
Les comportements de fécondité des régions rurales ont été perçus comme statiques, conservateurs et uniformes. Cet article analyse les changements et la variation relative de la fécondité légitime de deux agrosystèmes sociaux en Flandre. En nous appuyant sur des données individuelles longitudinales provenant des registres de population, nous analysons le cours de la baisse de la fécondité à partir de deux études de cas. En outre, nous utilisons l…
Lost in registration? Missing occupations of single women in the Bruges countryside, c.1814
The absence of occupational titles for women in historical censuses has stymied numerous scholars. Various authors have explained this phenomenon as carelessness or bias on the part of the census-takers. Women's work was of little interest to the authorities and census officials focused their efforts upon the activities of the head of household. While source triangulation can be a useful tool for uncovering ‘hidden’ employment of women, it is oft…
Discourses versus Life Courses
This article combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to study the effect of rural–urban migration on the sexual behavior of servants in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Flanders. In the qualitative part, I compare various discourses on servants’ extramarital behavior to sketch the ideological context which affected women’s agency. Contemporaries were commonly convinced that urban servants more often became pregnant out-of-wedlock th…
Introduction
Systematic research on urban-rural variation in demographic behavior is necessary to overcome dichotomous views resulting from studying cities and the countryside separately. After all, a web of interactions facilitating the diffusion of ideas and behavior connects cities and rural areas. That is why it is especially important to study the comportment of migrants moving between urban and rural environments. In line with this argument five case st…
Pay the midwife! The cost of delivery in nineteenth-century rural West Flanders
This article focuses on the determinants of the economic cost of at-home childbirth in Flanders in the nineteenth century. Literature on the remuneration of medical professionals in the nineteenth century is sparse. Yet the few existing studies show that fixed rates per delivery did not exist during the nineteenth century. Before that time, pricing was influenced by factors such as the professional experience of the midwife, the distance between …
Historical Economic and Social Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works)