List of Contributors

Robert C. Allen is Professor of Economic History at Oxford University and a Fellow of Nuffield College. He received his doctorate from Harvard University. He has written extensively on English agricultural history, international competition in the steel industry, the extinction of whales, the global history of wages and prices, and contemporary policies on education.

George Alter is Professor of History and Director of the Population Institute for Research and Training at Indiana University. In Family and the Female Life Course (1988) he applied event history methods to the demographic analysis of a historical population. ‘Stature in Transition: A Micro-level Study from Nineteenth-century Belgium' (Social Science History 2004), co-authored with Neven and Oris, examines trends and differentials in height as an indicator of childhood experiences during the Industrial Revolution. Alter is co-editor of the second Eurasia Project volume, Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction in Europe and Asia, 1700—1900 (in preparation).

Tommy Bengtsson is Professor of Demography and Economic History and Director of the Research Group in Economic Demography at Lund University. His historical studies include the analysis of demographic response to short-term economic stress as well as how conditions in early life influence social mobility, fertility, and longevity. His contemporary studies are on economic and social integration of the immigrant population in Sweden.

Marco Breschi is Professor of Demography at the University of Udine and the President of the Italian Society of Historical Demography. He has published widely on demographic history and on many related aspects of Italian populations.

Cameron D. Campbell is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles. He is the co­author with James Z. Lee of the book Fate and Fortune in Rural China (1997), and the co-author with Tommy Bengtsson, James Z. Lee, and other Eurasia project participants of the recently published Life Under Pressure (2004).

Martin Dribe is Associate Professor of Economic History at Lund University. He received his Ph.D. from Lund University in 2000 and has mainly been working on different aspects of the interaction between population and economy in preindustrial society, as well as on issues related to intergenerational land transmissions. His publications include the books Leaving Home in a Peasant Society. Economic Fluctuations, Household Dynamics and Youth Migration in Southern Sweden, 1829—1866 (2000) and Liv och rorelse. Familj och flyttningar i 1800-talets svensk,a bondesamhalle (2003).

Alessio Fornasin is Research Fellow in Demography at the University of Udine and the Secretary of the Italian Society of Historical Demography. He has published extensively in the field of economic and demographic history, with a specific focus on Italian regional history.

Giovanna Gonano is Researcher of Applied Statistics at the University of Udine.

Aaron Gullickson is Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography, University of California, Berkeley, and has a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He conducts research in historical demography, and on the biracial Black/White population in the United States. Recent publications include (with E. Hammel and A. Gullickson) ‘Kinship Structures and Survival: Maternal Mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian Border 1750—1898', Population Studies (2004).

Eugene A. Hammel is Professor Emeritus of Demography and Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He has done anthropological field work in Peru, Mexico, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, California, and New Mexico, and is member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent publications include (with E. Smith) Population Dynamics and Political Stability (2002); (with Mirjana Stevanovic) ‘The Migration of Serbs and Albanians within and between Kosovo and Inner Serbia', in Brunet, Oris, and Bideau (eds.), La demographic des minorites (The Demography of Minorities) (2004); and (with A. Gullickson) ‘Kinship Structures and Survival: Maternal Mortality on the Croatian-Bosnian Border 1750—1898' (2004). Population Studies.

Philip T. Hoffman is Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of History and Social Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has worked on

agricultural productivity, financial markets, and the political economy of institutions in Europe, and he is currently engaged in comparative studies of financial crises, military conquest, and long run growth. Recent publications include Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development (2003), co-edited with Stanley L. Engerman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, and Revolution et evolution: Les marches du credit notarie en France, 1780—1840, Annales HSS 59 (March-April, 2004), co-authored with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.

David S. Jacks is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University His research focuses on global economic history in general and the process of market integration in particular. Works on the integration of commodity markets in early modern Northern Europe and in the nineteenth-century Atlantic economy are forthcoming in the Journal of European Economic History and Explorations in Economic History

Hans Chr. Johansen is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Southern Denmark. Recent publications are ‘Identifying People in the Danish Past', in Pathways of the Past, Essays in Honour of Solvi Sogner (2002); ‘Danish Coastal Shipping c.1750-1914', in Coastal Shipping and the European Economy 1750—1980, edited by John Armstrong and Andreas Kunz (2002); and Danish Population History 1600—1939 (2002).

Satomi Kurosu is Associate Professor at Reitaku Universityin Chiba, Japan. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington with a specialization in family studies. Her recent publications include: ‘Who Leaves Home and Two Northeastern Villages 1716-1870', in F. van Poppel, M. Oris, and J. Z. Lee (eds.), The Road to Independence: Leaving Home in Western and Eastern Societies: 16th—20th Centuries (2004).

James Z. Lee is Professor of History and Sociology, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan. Recent books include Fate and Fortune in Rural China (with Cameron Campbell) (1997), One Quarter of Humanity (with Wang Feng) (1999), and LifeUnderPressure (with Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell et al.) (2004).

Patricia A. Levin has done postgraduate work in Economics and Mathematics at the University of California-Davis, and has a BA from Stanford University, a Masters Degree from the University of North Carolina, and is currently working as a Certificated Public Accountant.

Bozhong Li is Professor of History, as well as Chair of History Department and Director of the Center for Chinese Economy History Research at Tsinghua

University (Beijing, China). He is also a Vlsltlng Professor at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, US). He has been working on imperial Chinese economic history for three decades and is the author of a body of work. Among his recent books are Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620—1850 (1998) and Jiangnan de ga°and is currently working on the genetic, social, and economic dimensions of inheritance in nineteenth-century society, both in a vertical (intergenerational transfers) and horizontal (sibling effects) perspective.

Michel Oris is Professor of Economic History at the University of Geneva. His research is concerned with the economic and demographic history of industrialization in Eastern Belgium and the Canton of Geneva. He is co-editor of two recently published collections When Dad Died. Individuals and Families Coping with Distress in Past Societies (2002) and The Road to Independence. Leaving Home in Western and Eastern Societies, 16th—20th Centuries (2004). Those collections and the contribution in this volume developed from his participation in the Eurasia Projectfor the Comparative History of Population and the Family (EAP).

Prasannan Parthasarathi is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. He is the author of The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Merchants and

Kings in South India (2001) and articles in Past and Present and the Journal of Social History.

Kenneth Pomeranz is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Some of his major recent publications are The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2000), ‘Is there an East Asian Development Path?', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (2001), and ‘Beyond the East-West Dichotomy: Resituating Development Paths in the Eighteenth Century World', Journal of Asian Studies (2002).

Jaime Reis has been Professor of Economic History at the European University Institute, Florence, and Professor and Dean at the Faculty of Economics at the New University of Lisbon. He is currently Senior Fellow of the Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, Lisbon University His latest publications include: ‘How Poor was the Periphery before 1850? The Mediterranean versus Scandinavia', in Jeffrey Williamson and Sevket Pamuk (eds.), The Mediterranean Response to Globalization before 1950 (2000) and ‘Bank Structures, Gerschenkron and Portugal (pre-1914)', in Douglas J. Forsyth and Daniel Verdier (eds.), The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered (2003).

Osamu Saito is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research (IER), Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and has been working in economic history and historical demography. He is currently Programme Leader of IER's Research Unit for Statistical Analysis in Social Sciences. His recent publications include Population and Economy: From Hunger to Modern Economic Growth (2000, co-editor with T Bengtsson) and Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600—1859 (2004, co­editor with A. Hayami and R. P. Toby).

Richard H. Steckel is SBS distinguished Professor of Economics, Anthropology, and History at the Ohio State University. Since the mid-1970s, he has contributed to anthropometric history, an interdisciplinary field that blends subject matter from economics, history, human biology, and medical anthropology. His latest book (co-edited with Jerome Rose) on The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere (2002) examines pre-Columbian health over the millennia. He has been the principal investigator on numerous projects funded by the National Science Foundation and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Noriko O. Tsuya is Professor of Economics at Keio University in Tokyo. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago with a specialization in demography. Her recent publications include Marriage, Work, and Family Efe in Comparative Perspective: Japan, South Korea, and the United States (with Larry L. Bumpass) (2004).

Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Economic History at the University of Utrecht and Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Social History (Amsterdam). He has published on the economic history of the Netherlands—most recently with Arthur van Riel The Structures in Inheritance. The Dutch Economy 1780—1914 (2004)—and is now working on Indonesian economic history and on economic growth in Europe before 1800.