A Fornasin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 55017 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Fornasin |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Fornasin |
| ASSINATURA | FORNASIN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Udine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1923-0581 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Effects of Meteorological Conditions on the Circadian Rhythm of Births
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the influences exerted by temperature on the circadian rhythm of births. METHODS: In the past births occurred mainly between midnight and dawn, while today births tend to be less frequent during the night hours. Today, almost all births are hospitalized and, therefore, they may adapt to the organizational requirements of the health care structures and staff. This piece of research regards births in …
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes
Landed vs landless: a poor interpretative framework of demographic patterns • Land access is associated with specific demographic mechanisms • Control over marriage and selective migration as regulators of household size • Higher vulnerability and sensitiveness of day laborers to short-term stress In pre-industrial rural Italy, the disparities among smallholders, sharecroppers, and day laborers were starkly defined by their unequal access to land…
A large-scale study on the seasonality of marriages (Italy 1810–12)
This article addresses the topic of marriage seasonality in Italy during the early 19th century. Our goal is to explore the links between the seasonal distribution of weddings and the country’s various territorial contexts. By doing so, we aim to deepen our understanding of how marriage practices intersected with environmental, economic, and religious factors. The data are collected at the municipal level from the Napoleonic Civil Registers in th…
The Workload of the Italian Military Health Service During the First World War
The article proposes a quantitative evaluation of the workload of the Italian military health service during the First World War. In the Great War, there were unprecedented medical and health care issues. This was a result of the size of armies; the poor living conditions of the soldiers; and the introduction of new weapons. This article reconstructs some quantitative aspects of the Italian military health service in the Great War in terms of bot…
The older, the wiser and also the less innovative? An empirical analysis of the relationship between population aging and innovativeness
Entrepreneurship is generally considered the engine of growth, given its role in introducing innovations into the economic system. Developed countries have already become a victim of rapid aging of their populations, while the similar trend has just started in developing countries. The previous literature has suggested that aging and nascent entrepreneurship are negatively related. This study investigated the relationship between aging and innova…
Chest circumference and structural and short-term changes
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the utility of chest circumference measurements as a proxy for the socioeconomic characteristics of past populations. Our analysis is based on over 80,000 military medical examinations relating to Friuli (north-eastern Italy), recorded from 1881 to 1909. Chest circumference can be used to describe changes in standard of living, but also seasonal variations in food intakes and physical activities. The findin…
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century
The research explores the effects of the environment on neonatal mortality in the early nineteenth century, controlling for social and economic factors. Individual data, relative to the resident population of Udine, a city in northeastern Italy, under French domination (1806–1815) have been used. The information collected regards births and deaths within the first month of life and is taken from the Napoleonic civil registers. The spatial distrib…
Maternal nutritional status and offspring childlessness
The role of maternal nutrition in affecting offspring fertility, through alteration of foetal programming, has been demonstrated in animal-based experiments. However, results from human populations appear inconsistent and sometimes contradictory, likely because they have been based on single famine events. In this paper, we adopt a different approach. We combine official annual time series of daily nutrient availability with a sample of women's r…
Italian Prisoners Who Died During and After the First World War
The number of Italian military prisoners who died in enemy hands stands, according to the Italian historiography on the First World War, at 100,000 or more. In this paper, we offer an alternative estimate of the number of deaths using both individual and aggregate data. The reconstruction distinguishes between soldiers who died in captivity and soldiers who died as a consequence of captivity during and after the war. The results demonstrate that …
Female family heads in fascist Italy
This article examines the characteristics of Italian families with a female family head in the Italian Population Census of 1931. The aim is to assess the spread and distribution of female-led families in Italy, and to analyze, in demographic and socio-economic terms, the characteristics of these families and the women who led them. Differences between these female-led families and those with male family heads are highlighted in terms of demograp…
The Contrasting Effects of Education on Fertility over Time Casalguidi, 1819–1960
Education has been frequently claimed to shape demographic outcomes. Mortality, fertility, and nuptiality have all been attested to be affected to some extent by education attainment. This article investigates the effects of education on fertility over time in a rural Italian community once controlled for potential confounders. Using individual-level data drawn from various sources, the study analyzes the role of education in shaping reproductive…
The Richness of Italian Historical Demography
In this paper, we present a new methodology for the reconstruction of individual life-histories based on information derived from the integration of different parish registers. This methodology makes it possible to associate the sequence and timing of demographic events not only with the structural features of the households in which they occurred, but also with more general historical context and the economic factors that shaped the lives of peo…
Who Died in Captivity? Mortality Among Italian Prisoners During World War One
During World War One, almost 600,000 Italian soldiers were captured, and about 50,000 of them died. Most prisoners died of malnutrition and associated illnesses. The aim of this article is to study the differential mortality among Italian prisoners. To achieve this goal, the individual-level data of around 3,500 soldiers born between 1884 and 1899 in North-eastern Italy are used. In this article, the explanatory variables considered are: the mili…
Male fertility between biology and the socioeconomic context news from the past (Alghero, 1866–1935)
In the process of fertility decline, the role and participation of men have hardly been considered in the demographic literature. It has grown only as fertility was dropping dramatically in most Western countries, but very little has been done to analyze such an issue in historical populations. Based on individual-level data, the present paper aims at investigating, by means of hazard models, the role of males in the reproductive pattern of the p…
Maternal Mortality in 19th- and Early 20th-century Italy
Although dramatically reduced in Western and developed countries, maternal mortality is still today one of the most relevant social and health scourges in developing countries. This is the reason why high levels of maternal mortality are always interpreted as a sign of low living standards, ignorance, poverty and woman discrimination. Maternal mortality represents, therefore, a very peculiar characteristic of demographic systems of ancien regime.…
Deaths and survivors in war
The aim of this paper is to study the selection effects of mortality among soldiers in WWI
Reproductive Change in Transitional Italy
Le rôle des variables intermédiaires de fécondité reste une question largement inexplorée au niveau micro en Italie. Cet article étudie les effets de l’éducation féminine et des critères socioéconomiques sur le déclin de la fécondité dans dix populations italiennes, par le biais d’une analyse des cohortes de mariages de la fin du xix e siècle à 1951. Les données sont tirées de l’Enquête sur la Fécondité qui a été menée au sein du recensement ital…
Les pertes de l'armée italienne pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
Le nombre le plus souvent avancé pour estimer les pertes de l'armée italienne durant la Première Guerre mondiale est celui de la commission des réparations de guerre de 1921 qui comptabilise 650 000 décès. Cet article a pour objectifs de critiquer cette estimation, d'en proposer une nouvelle, et de fournir des informations sur la structure par âge et l'âge au décès des soldats italiens tombés durant la guerre. Le tableau d'honneur des soldats mor…
La préférence pour les fils dans une société de métayers
Les préférences quant au sexe des enfants et leur lien avec la fécondité ont souvent, voire exclusivement, été étudiées dans des populations transitionnelles ou post-transitionnelles. L'essentiel des études sur le sujet concernent des pays asiatiques, où le patriarcat et la discrimination liée au sexe étaient deux caractéristiques culturelles favorisant une préférence pour les fils. À l'inverse, l'attention s'est très peu focalisée sur les popula…
A micro-analytical Investigation of Reproductive Behaviour in Italy during the Fascist Period
Entre la fin des années 1920 et le début des années 1930, comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays européens, le régime fasciste italien prit des mesures pour lutter efficacement contre la baisse de la fécondité. Utilisant les données individuelles du recensement de 1961 dans quatre communautés présentant des profils sociaux et économiques variés, cette analyse se fixe pour objectif de vérifier si la campagne de propagande du régime et les mesures légis…
Social and Economic Determinants of Reproductive Behavior Before the Fertility Decline. The Case of Six Italian Communities During the Nineteenth Century
Patterns of reproductive behavior in transitional Italy
Few studies have investigated the role of the intermediate variables of fertility at the micro-level in Italy, and, in particular, little is known about the influence of socioeconomic factors. This is the reason that the mechanisms through which women arri
Height, socioeconomic status and marriage in Italy around 1900
Between Constraints and Coercion
Determinants of Territorial Exogamy in Friuli (North-East Italy) in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of individuals who formed exogamic marriages in the Friuli region (north-east Italy) during the second half of the 19th century. Logistic regression models were devised to measure the influence of the determinants of exogamic marriage, taking into account not only variables related to context but also spouses' economic, social and cultural characteristics. The determinants of exogamic marr…
Les pertes de l'armée italienne pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
Le nombre le plus souvent avancé pour estimer les pertes de l'armée italienne durant la Première Guerre mondiale est celui de la commission des réparations de guerre de 1921 qui comptabilise 650 000 décès. Cet article a pour objectifs de critiquer cette estimation, d'en proposer une nouvelle, et de fournir des informations sur la structure par âge et l'âge au décès des soldats italiens tombés durant la guerre. Le tableau d'honneur des soldats mor…
Socioeconomic conditions, health and mortality from birth to adulthood, Alghero 1866–1925
Maternal Mortality in 19th- and Early 20th-century Italy
Although dramatically reduced in Western and developed countries, maternal mortality is still today one of the most relevant social and health scourges in developing countries. This is the reason why high levels of maternal mortality are always interpreted as a sign of low living standards, ignorance, poverty and woman discrimination. Maternal mortality represents, therefore, a very peculiar characteristic of demographic systems of ancien regime.…
Patterns of reproductive behavior in transitional Italy
Few studies have investigated the role of the intermediate variables of fertility at the micro-level in Italy, and, in particular, little is known about the influence of socioeconomic factors. This is the reason that the mechanisms through which women arri
Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population
This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relatio
Family Composition and Remarriage in Pre-Transitional Italy
Social and Economic Determinants of Reproductive Behavior Before the Fertility Decline. The Case of Six Italian Communities During the Nineteenth Century
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century
The research explores the effects of the environment on neonatal mortality in the early nineteenth century, controlling for social and economic factors. Individual data, relative to the resident population of Udine, a city in northeastern Italy, under French domination (1806–1815) have been used. The information collected regards births and deaths within the first month of life and is taken from the Napoleonic civil registers. The spatial distrib…
La préférence pour les fils dans une société de métayers
Les préférences quant au sexe des enfants et leur lien avec la fécondité ont souvent, voire exclusivement, été étudiées dans des populations transitionnelles ou post-transitionnelles. L'essentiel des études sur le sujet concernent des pays asiatiques, où le patriarcat et la discrimination liée au sexe étaient deux caractéristiques culturelles favorisant une préférence pour les fils. À l'inverse, l'attention s'est très peu focalisée sur les popula…
Escaping the Crisis. Friulan Mountains 18th–19th Century
As for most of the mountainous areas even the Friulan Mountains between the 18th and the 19th century proved to be extremely deficient of consumer goods produce. To provide for the subsistence of the population it was therefore necessary to import great amounts of alimentary goods, cereals in particular. This paper will show how the agricultural prices influenced the mountainous areas; considerations will be made on the behaviour adopted by the p…
Deaths and survivors in war
The aim of this paper is to study the selection effects of mortality among soldiers in WWI
Mortality Patterns of Cardinals (Sixteenth ? Twentieth Centuries)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l’Église catholique du xvie au xxe siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l’Église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l’assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le Ve siècle, il est possible d’en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période ét…
Remarriage in a pre-transitional Italian community
The article explores the roles of household compositional factors and socio-economic status on widowhood and remarriage. By using micro-level data from a nineteenth-century Italian community for the period 1819–1859, we found evidence of the very predominant role of household structure in the decision to remarry for both widows and widowers. In particular, the interplay between the presence of a supportive family network and the presence of cores…
Land Inequality and Demographic Outcomes
Landed vs landless: a poor interpretative framework of demographic patterns • Land access is associated with specific demographic mechanisms • Control over marriage and selective migration as regulators of household size • Higher vulnerability and sensitiveness of day laborers to short-term stress In pre-industrial rural Italy, the disparities among smallholders, sharecroppers, and day laborers were starkly defined by their unequal access to land…
Between Constraints and Coercion
La mortalité des cardinaux (XVIe-XXe siècles)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l'Église catholique du XVI e au XX e siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l'église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l'assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le V e siècle, il est possible d'en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période…
Escaping the Crisis. Friulan Mountains 18th–19th Century
As for most of the mountainous areas even the Friulan Mountains between the 18th and the 19th century proved to be extremely deficient of consumer goods produce. To provide for the subsistence of the population it was therefore necessary to import great amounts of alimentary goods, cereals in particular. This paper will show how the agricultural prices influenced the mountainous areas; considerations will be made on the behaviour adopted by the p…
Remarriage in a pre-transitional Italian community
The article explores the roles of household compositional factors and socio-economic status on widowhood and remarriage. By using micro-level data from a nineteenth-century Italian community for the period 1819–1859, we found evidence of the very predominant role of household structure in the decision to remarry for both widows and widowers. In particular, the interplay between the presence of a supportive family network and the presence of cores…
Family Composition and Remarriage in Pre-Transitional Italy
Mortality Patterns of Cardinals (Sixteenth ? Twentieth Centuries)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l’Église catholique du xvie au xxe siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l’Église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l’assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le Ve siècle, il est possible d’en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période ét…
Determinants of Territorial Exogamy in Friuli (North-East Italy) in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics of individuals who formed exogamic marriages in the Friuli region (north-east Italy) during the second half of the 19th century. Logistic regression models were devised to measure the influence of the determinants of exogamic marriage, taking into account not only variables related to context but also spouses' economic, social and cultural characteristics. The determinants of exogamic marr…
Socioeconomic conditions, health and mortality from birth to adulthood, Alghero 1866–1925
Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population
This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relatio
La mortalité des cardinaux (XVIe-XXe siècles)
Cet article étudie les caractéristiques et la mortalité des cardinaux de l'Église catholique du XVI e au XX e siècle. Les cardinaux remplissent un rôle essentiel dans l'église : ils forment le Sacré collège, élisent le pape et l'assistent. Grâce à une base de données remarquable par la précision et la continuité des informations biographiques recueillies depuis le V e siècle, il est possible d'en analyser certaines spécificités. Durant la période…
Height, socioeconomic status and marriage in Italy around 1900
Between Constraints and Coercion
Patterns of reproductive behavior in transitional Italy
Few studies have investigated the role of the intermediate variables of fertility at the micro-level in Italy, and, in particular, little is known about the influence of socioeconomic factors. This is the reason that the mechanisms through which women arri
Social and Economic Determinants of Reproductive Behavior Before the Fertility Decline. The Case of Six Italian Communities During the Nineteenth Century
A micro-analytical Investigation of Reproductive Behaviour in Italy during the Fascist Period
Entre la fin des années 1920 et le début des années 1930, comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays européens, le régime fasciste italien prit des mesures pour lutter efficacement contre la baisse de la fécondité. Utilisant les données individuelles du recensement de 1961 dans quatre communautés présentant des profils sociaux et économiques variés, cette analyse se fixe pour objectif de vérifier si la campagne de propagande du régime et les mesures légis…
Reproductive Change in Transitional Italy
Le rôle des variables intermédiaires de fécondité reste une question largement inexplorée au niveau micro en Italie. Cet article étudie les effets de l’éducation féminine et des critères socioéconomiques sur le déclin de la fécondité dans dix populations italiennes, par le biais d’une analyse des cohortes de mariages de la fin du xix e siècle à 1951. Les données sont tirées de l’Enquête sur la Fécondité qui a été menée au sein du recensement ital…
Les pertes de l'armée italienne pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
Le nombre le plus souvent avancé pour estimer les pertes de l'armée italienne durant la Première Guerre mondiale est celui de la commission des réparations de guerre de 1921 qui comptabilise 650 000 décès. Cet article a pour objectifs de critiquer cette estimation, d'en proposer une nouvelle, et de fournir des informations sur la structure par âge et l'âge au décès des soldats italiens tombés durant la guerre. Le tableau d'honneur des soldats mor…
La préférence pour les fils dans une société de métayers
Les préférences quant au sexe des enfants et leur lien avec la fécondité ont souvent, voire exclusivement, été étudiées dans des populations transitionnelles ou post-transitionnelles. L'essentiel des études sur le sujet concernent des pays asiatiques, où le patriarcat et la discrimination liée au sexe étaient deux caractéristiques culturelles favorisant une préférence pour les fils. À l'inverse, l'attention s'est très peu focalisée sur les popula…
Male fertility between biology and the socioeconomic context news from the past (Alghero, 1866–1935)
In the process of fertility decline, the role and participation of men have hardly been considered in the demographic literature. It has grown only as fertility was dropping dramatically in most Western countries, but very little has been done to analyze such an issue in historical populations. Based on individual-level data, the present paper aims at investigating, by means of hazard models, the role of males in the reproductive pattern of the p…
Maternal Mortality in 19th- and Early 20th-century Italy
Although dramatically reduced in Western and developed countries, maternal mortality is still today one of the most relevant social and health scourges in developing countries. This is the reason why high levels of maternal mortality are always interpreted as a sign of low living standards, ignorance, poverty and woman discrimination. Maternal mortality represents, therefore, a very peculiar characteristic of demographic systems of ancien regime.…
Deaths and survivors in war
The aim of this paper is to study the selection effects of mortality among soldiers in WWI
The Richness of Italian Historical Demography
In this paper, we present a new methodology for the reconstruction of individual life-histories based on information derived from the integration of different parish registers. This methodology makes it possible to associate the sequence and timing of demographic events not only with the structural features of the households in which they occurred, but also with more general historical context and the economic factors that shaped the lives of peo…
Who Died in Captivity? Mortality Among Italian Prisoners During World War One
During World War One, almost 600,000 Italian soldiers were captured, and about 50,000 of them died. Most prisoners died of malnutrition and associated illnesses. The aim of this article is to study the differential mortality among Italian prisoners. To achieve this goal, the individual-level data of around 3,500 soldiers born between 1884 and 1899 in North-eastern Italy are used. In this article, the explanatory variables considered are: the mili…
Italian Prisoners Who Died During and After the First World War
The number of Italian military prisoners who died in enemy hands stands, according to the Italian historiography on the First World War, at 100,000 or more. In this paper, we offer an alternative estimate of the number of deaths using both individual and aggregate data. The reconstruction distinguishes between soldiers who died in captivity and soldiers who died as a consequence of captivity during and after the war. The results demonstrate that …
Female family heads in fascist Italy
This article examines the characteristics of Italian families with a female family head in the Italian Population Census of 1931. The aim is to assess the spread and distribution of female-led families in Italy, and to analyze, in demographic and socio-economic terms, the characteristics of these families and the women who led them. Differences between these female-led families and those with male family heads are highlighted in terms of demograp…
The Contrasting Effects of Education on Fertility over Time Casalguidi, 1819–1960
Education has been frequently claimed to shape demographic outcomes. Mortality, fertility, and nuptiality have all been attested to be affected to some extent by education attainment. This article investigates the effects of education on fertility over time in a rural Italian community once controlled for potential confounders. Using individual-level data drawn from various sources, the study analyzes the role of education in shaping reproductive…
Environmental and socioeconomic determinants of neonatal mortality in a northern Italian city in the early nineteenth century
The research explores the effects of the environment on neonatal mortality in the early nineteenth century, controlling for social and economic factors. Individual data, relative to the resident population of Udine, a city in northeastern Italy, under French domination (1806–1815) have been used. The information collected regards births and deaths within the first month of life and is taken from the Napoleonic civil registers. The spatial distrib…
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