BioHistory Seminar: Life and Death in the City

- Demography and Living Standards during Stockholm's Industrialization

Presentation by Joseph Molitoris, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

Joseph Molitoris will talk about his recently defended dissertation at Lund University (2015) which studies the causes and consequences of the fertility transition and the development of living standards inequality during industrialization in Stockholm between 1878 and 1926 using a very rich longitudinal individual-level source.

Although both processes have received much interest from researchers, we know relatively little of how either one played out among individuals in urban areas, which were both at the forefront of industrialization and the fertility decline.

Joseph Molitoris will present some results of his work, which challenge many existing explanations of the fertility decline and reveal how, despite overall improvements in living standards, elite socioeconomic groups were able to continually leverage their superior resources to maintain significantly lower levels of infant and child mortality.

BioHistory Seminar Series
The presentation is a part of the BioHistory Seminar Series organized the BioHistory Group at the Saxo Institute. All interested are welcome to attend the presentation on March 15th at 12 am in room 12.3.07, KUA2, Karen Blixens Vej 4, DK-2300 Copenhagen S.