Rick J Mourits
Biographic Data
| ID | 1591998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rick J Mourits |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rick J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mourits |
| SIGNATURE | MOURITS R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2267-1679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What the study of religious conversions can offer social history: An exploration of conversion to new Christian movements in the Netherlands ~1850–1950
Understanding patterns of engagement in the citizen humanities: The civil records of Suriname
Contains fulltext : 312105.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Persons in Context. A Model to Represent Observations and Reconstructions of Historical Persons in Linked Data
Reconstruction of historical persons and family ties is the bread and butter of many researchers and genealogists. With the increasing digital availability of historical person records, the scope and depth of person reconstructions speaks to the imagination of researchers and genealogists. Yet, the lack of standardisation in the description of historical person data has hurt the interoperability and sustainability of both small and large database…
LINKS. A System for Historical Family Reconstruction in the Netherlands
LINKS stands for 'LINKing System for historical family reconstruction' and is a software system to link nominal data from the Dutch archives and ultimately reconstruct historical individuals and families. We present the background and philosophy of this matching system and explain its data structure and functioning. Currently the core data of the LINKS system consists of indexed civil certificates. These certificates are available from 1812 — the…
Exploring familial factors in the migrant mortality advantage among domestic migrants in later life: Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1812–1962
Many historical and contemporary studies have shown that migrants enjoy survival advantages over non-migrants, even if they originate from higher mortality regimes and have a lower socio-economic and educational status compared to non-migrants in the destination area. This so-called migrant mortality advantage or healthy migrant effect is explained in various ways. One of the main explanations refers to selection effects in the area of origin in …
Slavery in Suriname. A Reconstruction of Life Courses, 1830–1863
The slavenregisters or slave registers of Suriname offer a unique perspective on the social and demographic history of a people in bondage. Thanks to a citizen science project, the archival sources were transcribed in 2017 by hundreds of volunteers. The transcriptions were used to create a longitudinal database of more than 90,000 enslaved persons. This paper describes the sources, data entry, and cleaning to create a standardized database as wel…
Unequal excess mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands
A century after the Spanish Flu, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to socioeconomic and occupational differences in mortality in the earlier pandemic. The magnitude of these differences and the pathways between occupation and increased mortality remain unclear, however. In this paper, we explore the relation between occupational characteristics and excess mortality among men during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands. By…
Retracing Hotbeds of the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic. Spatial Differences in Seasonal Excess Mortality in the Netherlands
A century ago, the 1918–19 influenza pandemic swept across the globe, taking the lives of over 50 million people. We use data from the Dutch civil registry to show which regions in the Netherlands were most affected by the 1918–19 pandemic. We do so for the entire 1918 year as well as the first, second, and third wave that hit the Netherlands in summer 1918, autumn 1918, and winter 1919. Our analyses show that excess mortality was highest in Oost…
Women Born to Older Mothers Have Reduced Fertility. Evidence From a Natural Fertility Population
Are daughters of older mothers less fertile? The human mutation rate is high and increases with chronological age. As female oocytes age, they become less functional, reducing female chances at successful reproduction. Increased oocyte mutation loads at advanced age may be passed on to offspring, decreasing fertility among daughters born to older mothers. In this paper we study the effects of maternal ageing on her daughter's fertility, including…
Spatial clustering of longevity in a Dutch province, 1812–1962: How stable, behavior-associated environmental characteristics explain the local clustering of longevity
Nous cherchons à identifier les facteurs qui influent sur les regroupements spatiaux de longévité, et qui permettent de repérer si les avantages en termes de survie interviennent à une période précoce de l’existence ou plus tard, ou encore tout au long de l’existence. Pour reconstruire la vie d’une cohorte d’habitants de la Zélande nés entre 1812 et 1862, nous nous appuyons sur les données de mortalité reconstituées pour une période de 150 ans à …
Spatial clustering of longevity in a Dutch province, 1812-1962: How stable, behaviour-associated environmental characteristics explain the local clustering of longevity
Nous cherchons à identifier les facteurs qui influent sur les regroupements spatiaux de longévité, et qui permettent de repérer si les avantages en termes de survie interviennent à une période précoce de l’existence ou plus tard, ou encore tout au long de l’existence. Pour reconstruire la vie d’une cohorte d’habitants de la Zélande nés entre 1812 et 1862, nous nous appuyons sur les données de mortalité reconstituées pour une période de 150 ans à …
Families in comparison: An individual-level comparison of life-course and family reconstructions between population and vital event registers
It remains unknown how different types of sources affect the reconstruction of life courses and families in large-scale databases increasingly common in demographic research. Here, we compare family and life-course reconstructions for 495 individuals simultaneously present in two well-known Dutch data sets: LINKS, based on the Zeeland province's full-population vital event registration data (passive registration), and the Historical Sample of the…
From Matched Certificates to Related Persons
For the Netherlands, a rich new data source has become available which contains indexed civil certificates for multiple generations of individuals: LINKS. The current version of the dataset contains information on 1.7 million demographic events for the province of Zeeland in the 19th and early 20th centuries and will be extended to other provinces in the Netherlands in the near future. To be able to study demographic behaviour, life courses and f…
Intergenerational transmission of longevity is not affected by other familial factors: Evidence from 16,905 Dutch families from Zeeland, 1812-1962
Studies have shown that long-lived individuals seem to pass their survival advantage on to their offspring. Offspring of long-lived parents had a lifelong survival advantage over individuals without long-lived parents, making them more likely to become long-lived themselves. We test whether the survival advantage enjoyed by offspring of long-lived individuals is explained by environmental factors. 101,577 individuals from 16,905 families in the 1…
Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading
The limits to human lifespan are a widely discussed topic. Yet, later-life mortality and longevity are generally studied from a genetic perspective, while the social dimension has received less attention. This paper gives a systematic overview of trends in later-life mortality and longevity for cohorts that were born in the late 18th and 19th century, and shows that the average population and the top survivors from cohorts born between 1800 and 1…
How Do the Middle Class and the Poor Grow Apart? An Empirical Test of the Psychological Well-Being Pathway in Middle-Income Countries
Slavery in Suriname. A Reconstruction of Life Courses, 1830–1863
The slavenregisters or slave registers of Suriname offer a unique perspective on the social and demographic history of a people in bondage. Thanks to a citizen science project, the archival sources were transcribed in 2017 by hundreds of volunteers. The transcriptions were used to create a longitudinal database of more than 90,000 enslaved persons. This paper describes the sources, data entry, and cleaning to create a standardized database as wel…
Families in comparison: An individual-level comparison of life-course and family reconstructions between population and vital event registers
It remains unknown how different types of sources affect the reconstruction of life courses and families in large-scale databases increasingly common in demographic research. Here, we compare family and life-course reconstructions for 495 individuals simultaneously present in two well-known Dutch data sets: LINKS, based on the Zeeland province's full-population vital event registration data (passive registration), and the Historical Sample of the…
Intergenerational transmission of longevity is not affected by other familial factors: Evidence from 16,905 Dutch families from Zeeland, 1812-1962
Studies have shown that long-lived individuals seem to pass their survival advantage on to their offspring. Offspring of long-lived parents had a lifelong survival advantage over individuals without long-lived parents, making them more likely to become long-lived themselves. We test whether the survival advantage enjoyed by offspring of long-lived individuals is explained by environmental factors. 101,577 individuals from 16,905 families in the 1…
How Do the Middle Class and the Poor Grow Apart? An Empirical Test of the Psychological Well-Being Pathway in Middle-Income Countries
Later-Life Mortality and Longevity in Late-18th and 19th-Century Cohorts. Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Heading
The limits to human lifespan are a widely discussed topic. Yet, later-life mortality and longevity are generally studied from a genetic perspective, while the social dimension has received less attention. This paper gives a systematic overview of trends in later-life mortality and longevity for cohorts that were born in the late 18th and 19th century, and shows that the average population and the top survivors from cohorts born between 1800 and 1…
From Matched Certificates to Related Persons
For the Netherlands, a rich new data source has become available which contains indexed civil certificates for multiple generations of individuals: LINKS. The current version of the dataset contains information on 1.7 million demographic events for the province of Zeeland in the 19th and early 20th centuries and will be extended to other provinces in the Netherlands in the near future. To be able to study demographic behaviour, life courses and f…
Intergenerational transmission of longevity is not affected by other familial factors: Evidence from 16,905 Dutch families from Zeeland, 1812-1962
Studies have shown that long-lived individuals seem to pass their survival advantage on to their offspring. Offspring of long-lived parents had a lifelong survival advantage over individuals without long-lived parents, making them more likely to become long-lived themselves. We test whether the survival advantage enjoyed by offspring of long-lived individuals is explained by environmental factors. 101,577 individuals from 16,905 families in the 1…
Retracing Hotbeds of the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic. Spatial Differences in Seasonal Excess Mortality in the Netherlands
A century ago, the 1918–19 influenza pandemic swept across the globe, taking the lives of over 50 million people. We use data from the Dutch civil registry to show which regions in the Netherlands were most affected by the 1918–19 pandemic. We do so for the entire 1918 year as well as the first, second, and third wave that hit the Netherlands in summer 1918, autumn 1918, and winter 1919. Our analyses show that excess mortality was highest in Oost…
Women Born to Older Mothers Have Reduced Fertility. Evidence From a Natural Fertility Population
Are daughters of older mothers less fertile? The human mutation rate is high and increases with chronological age. As female oocytes age, they become less functional, reducing female chances at successful reproduction. Increased oocyte mutation loads at advanced age may be passed on to offspring, decreasing fertility among daughters born to older mothers. In this paper we study the effects of maternal ageing on her daughter's fertility, including…
Spatial clustering of longevity in a Dutch province, 1812–1962: How stable, behavior-associated environmental characteristics explain the local clustering of longevity
Nous cherchons à identifier les facteurs qui influent sur les regroupements spatiaux de longévité, et qui permettent de repérer si les avantages en termes de survie interviennent à une période précoce de l’existence ou plus tard, ou encore tout au long de l’existence. Pour reconstruire la vie d’une cohorte d’habitants de la Zélande nés entre 1812 et 1862, nous nous appuyons sur les données de mortalité reconstituées pour une période de 150 ans à …
Spatial clustering of longevity in a Dutch province, 1812-1962: How stable, behaviour-associated environmental characteristics explain the local clustering of longevity
Nous cherchons à identifier les facteurs qui influent sur les regroupements spatiaux de longévité, et qui permettent de repérer si les avantages en termes de survie interviennent à une période précoce de l’existence ou plus tard, ou encore tout au long de l’existence. Pour reconstruire la vie d’une cohorte d’habitants de la Zélande nés entre 1812 et 1862, nous nous appuyons sur les données de mortalité reconstituées pour une période de 150 ans à …
Families in comparison: An individual-level comparison of life-course and family reconstructions between population and vital event registers
It remains unknown how different types of sources affect the reconstruction of life courses and families in large-scale databases increasingly common in demographic research. Here, we compare family and life-course reconstructions for 495 individuals simultaneously present in two well-known Dutch data sets: LINKS, based on the Zeeland province's full-population vital event registration data (passive registration), and the Historical Sample of the…
Unequal excess mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands
A century after the Spanish Flu, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to socioeconomic and occupational differences in mortality in the earlier pandemic. The magnitude of these differences and the pathways between occupation and increased mortality remain unclear, however. In this paper, we explore the relation between occupational characteristics and excess mortality among men during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands. By…
LINKS. A System for Historical Family Reconstruction in the Netherlands
LINKS stands for 'LINKing System for historical family reconstruction' and is a software system to link nominal data from the Dutch archives and ultimately reconstruct historical individuals and families. We present the background and philosophy of this matching system and explain its data structure and functioning. Currently the core data of the LINKS system consists of indexed civil certificates. These certificates are available from 1812 — the…
Exploring familial factors in the migrant mortality advantage among domestic migrants in later life: Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1812–1962
Many historical and contemporary studies have shown that migrants enjoy survival advantages over non-migrants, even if they originate from higher mortality regimes and have a lower socio-economic and educational status compared to non-migrants in the destination area. This so-called migrant mortality advantage or healthy migrant effect is explained in various ways. One of the main explanations refers to selection effects in the area of origin in …
Slavery in Suriname. A Reconstruction of Life Courses, 1830–1863
The slavenregisters or slave registers of Suriname offer a unique perspective on the social and demographic history of a people in bondage. Thanks to a citizen science project, the archival sources were transcribed in 2017 by hundreds of volunteers. The transcriptions were used to create a longitudinal database of more than 90,000 enslaved persons. This paper describes the sources, data entry, and cleaning to create a standardized database as wel…
Persons in Context. A Model to Represent Observations and Reconstructions of Historical Persons in Linked Data
Reconstruction of historical persons and family ties is the bread and butter of many researchers and genealogists. With the increasing digital availability of historical person records, the scope and depth of person reconstructions speaks to the imagination of researchers and genealogists. Yet, the lack of standardisation in the description of historical person data has hurt the interoperability and sustainability of both small and large database…
Understanding patterns of engagement in the citizen humanities: The civil records of Suriname
Contains fulltext : 312105.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
What the study of religious conversions can offer social history: An exploration of conversion to new Christian movements in the Netherlands ~1850–1950
Demography (10 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)