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The European marriage pattern as solution and problem: Households of the elderly in Verviers, Belgium, 1831

George Alter George Alter is Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, and a Fellow of the Population Institute for Research and Training, Poplars 738, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Pages 123-138 | Published online: 03 Jan 2012

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Anke Verbeke. (2021) Lonely last days? Social networks and formal care at the deathbed of urban elderly in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, 1797. The History of the Family 26:1, pages 123-148.
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Ann-Kristin Högman. (1999) The impact of demographic and socio-economic change on the living arrangements of the elderly in Sundsval, Sweden, during the nineteenth century. The History of the Family 4:2, pages 137-158.
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ANN-KRISTIN HÖGMAN. (2015) Survival strategies late in life: living conditions of never-married elderly women in Gothenburg in the 1920s. Continuity and Change 30:2, pages 279-300.
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Matteo Manfredini & Marco Breschi. (2013) Living Arrangements and the Elderly: An Analysis of Old-Age Mortality by Household Structure in Casalguidi, 1819–1859. Demography 50:5, pages 1593-1613.
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K. Lilja & D. Backlund. (2013) To navigate the family economy over a lifetime: life-cycle squeezes in pre-industrial Swedish towns. European Review of Economic History 17:2, pages 171-189.
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George C. Alter. (2016) Generation to Generation. Social Science History 37:1, pages 1-26.
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Cheryl Elman & Andrew S. London. (2016) Racial Differences in Multigenerational Living Arrangements in 1910. Social Science History 35:3, pages 275-322.
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