, confronting our societies with types and degrees of alterity never before encountered. Whereas contact with cultural strangers is … dementia sufferers represent new forms of alterity for which most societies have not yet established routines of conduct. This …

findings on the existence of parity-dependent as well as parity-independent birth spacing in England are consistent with the …

-run effect of living standards on birth spacing in the three centuries preceding England's fertility transition. While the effect … could be driven by biology in the case of the poor, a significant effect among the rich suggests that spacing worked as a …