Evelien Walhout
Biographic Data
| ID | 1207911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evelien Walhout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evelien |
| FAMILY NAME | Walhout |
| SIGNATURE | WALHOUT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8652-4619 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conspiracy or care? Excess mortality and institutionalised children in the Netherlands, 1860s–1960s
This research note explores excess mortality among institutionalised children and adolescents in the Netherlands from the 1860s to the 1960s, linking a recent case study of the Catholic Good Shepherd institution to broader, comparative questions in historical family demography. Public debates have increasingly framed mortality as definitive evidence of institutional violence, exemplified by the 2024 documentary De meisjes van de Goede Herder. Yet…
Epidemics in Motion. Exploring the Interaction between Childhood Diseases in a Norwegian City, 1863–1928
This article explores interactions between measles and whooping cough in Christiania (now Oslo) during the period 1863–1928, using annual morbidity, mortality, and fertility data. Drawing on the ecological interference model proposed by Rohani et al. (2003), we examine whether epidemic patterns shifted from so-called out-of-phase to in-phase dynamics as fertility declined and the pool of susceptibles decreased. Dividing the analysis into two peri…
Hostages of time
Parallèlement au baby boom , la période qui a suivi la Seconde Guerre mondiale correspond à un autre changement démographique en Europe et plus largement dans l’espace occidental, nettement moins étudié : l’ère du baby scoop , soit une augmentation des grossesses hors mariage suivi d’un accroissement du nombre d’enfants confiés à l’adoption. Cette étude explore ces changements sociaux et démographiques à la lumière du cas néerlandais où l’adoptio…
Hostages of time
Parallèlement au baby boom , la période qui a suivi la Seconde Guerre mondiale correspond à un autre changement démographique en Europe et plus largement dans l’espace occidental, nettement moins étudié : l’ère du baby scoop , soit une augmentation des grossesses hors mariage suivi d’un accroissement du nombre d’enfants confiés à l’adoption. Cette étude explore ces changements sociaux et démographiques à la lumière du cas néerlandais où l’adoptio…
Criminal Life Courses in Context
The future of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) will certainly include the enrichment of the foundational database with additional, new sources of information. In general, the HSN would highly benefit from current mass digitization projects involving citizen science. This essay proposes a pilot in linking 19th- and early 20th-century criminal records to HSN. In spite of the extensive state and parish registration documenting individu…
The Gendering of Infectious Disease
This article explores sex and gender patterns in mortality, based on individual-level causes of death (CODs) in two urban communities, obtained from civil and parish registers. By analysing CODs for the period 1880-1910 for Roosendaal (Netherlands) and Trondheim (Norway) we investigate how notions of sex and gender were reflected in cause-specific mortality rates for adults and in the registration of CODs by local authorities. Our findings show (…
Offspring Sex Preference in Frontier America
Analysis of the fertility histories of women born between 1850 and 1900, as given in the Utah Population Database (updb), reveals the effect of the number, as well as the sex composition, of previous children on birth-stopping and birth-spacing decisions. Specifically, agricultural and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (lds) households-two sub-populations that might have placed different values on male and female children for economic, …
Is breast best? Evaluating breastfeeding patterns and causes of infant death in a Dutch province in the period 1875–1900
In the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, infants experienced extremely high mortality risks towards the final decades of the nineteenth century. It has been stated that infant survival in the past highly depended upon the fact whether a child was breastfed or not. In this article we will reflect on this perceived importance of infant diet in order to explain the high mortality risks of Brabant infants in the period 1875–1900. Using local aggregate…
Oversterfte van jonge meisjes in Nederland in de negentiende en eerste helft twintigste eeuw
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
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…
Bart van de Putte, Partnerkeuze in de negentiende eeuw. Klasse, romantiek, geografische afkomst en de vorming van de sociale groepen op de huwelijksmarkt
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
M. Carlier, Kinderen van de minne? Bastaarden in het 15e-eeuwse Vlaanderen
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Determinants of institutionalization of orphans in a nineteenth-century Dutch town
Until late in the nineteenth century a considerable proportion of Dutch children had lost one or both parents by the time they reached adulthood. This was a consequence of low life expectancy, the high age at which reproduction started (partly due to late marriage) and high fertility within marriage. For the Netherlands in the period 1850 to 1900, the proportion of persons aged 20 or less who had lost one of their parents is estimated between 8 a…
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…
Is breast best? Evaluating breastfeeding patterns and causes of infant death in a Dutch province in the period 1875–1900
In the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, infants experienced extremely high mortality risks towards the final decades of the nineteenth century. It has been stated that infant survival in the past highly depended upon the fact whether a child was breastfed or not. In this article we will reflect on this perceived importance of infant diet in order to explain the high mortality risks of Brabant infants in the period 1875–1900. Using local aggregate…
Offspring Sex Preference in Frontier America
Analysis of the fertility histories of women born between 1850 and 1900, as given in the Utah Population Database (updb), reveals the effect of the number, as well as the sex composition, of previous children on birth-stopping and birth-spacing decisions. Specifically, agricultural and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (lds) households-two sub-populations that might have placed different values on male and female children for economic, …
Determinants of institutionalization of orphans in a nineteenth-century Dutch town
Until late in the nineteenth century a considerable proportion of Dutch children had lost one or both parents by the time they reached adulthood. This was a consequence of low life expectancy, the high age at which reproduction started (partly due to late marriage) and high fertility within marriage. For the Netherlands in the period 1850 to 1900, the proportion of persons aged 20 or less who had lost one of their parents is estimated between 8 a…
Determinants of institutionalization of orphans in a nineteenth-century Dutch town
Until late in the nineteenth century a considerable proportion of Dutch children had lost one or both parents by the time they reached adulthood. This was a consequence of low life expectancy, the high age at which reproduction started (partly due to late marriage) and high fertility within marriage. For the Netherlands in the period 1850 to 1900, the proportion of persons aged 20 or less who had lost one of their parents is estimated between 8 a…
M. Carlier, Kinderen van de minne? Bastaarden in het 15e-eeuwse Vlaanderen
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Bart van de Putte, Partnerkeuze in de negentiende eeuw. Klasse, romantiek, geografische afkomst en de vorming van de sociale groepen op de huwelijksmarkt
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Oversterfte van jonge meisjes in Nederland in de negentiende en eerste helft twintigste eeuw
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
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…
Is breast best? Evaluating breastfeeding patterns and causes of infant death in a Dutch province in the period 1875–1900
In the Dutch province of Noord-Brabant, infants experienced extremely high mortality risks towards the final decades of the nineteenth century. It has been stated that infant survival in the past highly depended upon the fact whether a child was breastfed or not. In this article we will reflect on this perceived importance of infant diet in order to explain the high mortality risks of Brabant infants in the period 1875–1900. Using local aggregate…
Offspring Sex Preference in Frontier America
Analysis of the fertility histories of women born between 1850 and 1900, as given in the Utah Population Database (updb), reveals the effect of the number, as well as the sex composition, of previous children on birth-stopping and birth-spacing decisions. Specifically, agricultural and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (lds) households-two sub-populations that might have placed different values on male and female children for economic, …
Criminal Life Courses in Context
The future of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) will certainly include the enrichment of the foundational database with additional, new sources of information. In general, the HSN would highly benefit from current mass digitization projects involving citizen science. This essay proposes a pilot in linking 19th- and early 20th-century criminal records to HSN. In spite of the extensive state and parish registration documenting individu…
The Gendering of Infectious Disease
This article explores sex and gender patterns in mortality, based on individual-level causes of death (CODs) in two urban communities, obtained from civil and parish registers. By analysing CODs for the period 1880-1910 for Roosendaal (Netherlands) and Trondheim (Norway) we investigate how notions of sex and gender were reflected in cause-specific mortality rates for adults and in the registration of CODs by local authorities. Our findings show (…
Hostages of time
Parallèlement au baby boom , la période qui a suivi la Seconde Guerre mondiale correspond à un autre changement démographique en Europe et plus largement dans l’espace occidental, nettement moins étudié : l’ère du baby scoop , soit une augmentation des grossesses hors mariage suivi d’un accroissement du nombre d’enfants confiés à l’adoption. Cette étude explore ces changements sociaux et démographiques à la lumière du cas néerlandais où l’adoptio…
Hostages of time
Parallèlement au baby boom , la période qui a suivi la Seconde Guerre mondiale correspond à un autre changement démographique en Europe et plus largement dans l’espace occidental, nettement moins étudié : l’ère du baby scoop , soit une augmentation des grossesses hors mariage suivi d’un accroissement du nombre d’enfants confiés à l’adoption. Cette étude explore ces changements sociaux et démographiques à la lumière du cas néerlandais où l’adoptio…
Epidemics in Motion. Exploring the Interaction between Childhood Diseases in a Norwegian City, 1863–1928
This article explores interactions between measles and whooping cough in Christiania (now Oslo) during the period 1863–1928, using annual morbidity, mortality, and fertility data. Drawing on the ecological interference model proposed by Rohani et al. (2003), we examine whether epidemic patterns shifted from so-called out-of-phase to in-phase dynamics as fertility declined and the pool of susceptibles decreased. Dividing the analysis into two peri…
Conspiracy or care? Excess mortality and institutionalised children in the Netherlands, 1860s–1960s
This research note explores excess mortality among institutionalised children and adolescents in the Netherlands from the 1860s to the 1960s, linking a recent case study of the Catholic Good Shepherd institution to broader, comparative questions in historical family demography. Public debates have increasingly framed mortality as definitive evidence of institutional violence, exemplified by the 2024 documentary De meisjes van de Goede Herder. Yet…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works)