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The UC Croatia Project: A project in family reconstitution and demographic analysis in Croatia-Slavonia c. 1700-1900, conducted in cooperation with the Archive of Croatia and the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore, Zagreb.


Curriculum vitae

Abstracts of papers given at meetings.

Copies of working papers, recently published papers, and papers in press.

Economics 1, Culture 0: Fertility change and differences in the northwest Balkans 1700-1900. Published in Situating Fertility: anthropology and demographic inquiry, S. Greenhalgh (ed). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 225-258. Copyright, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Anthropology and Demography: marriage, liaison, or encounter? (with Diana Friou). In Anthropological demography: toward a new synthesis, D. Kertzer and T. Fricke, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Demographic Constraints on Population Growth of Early Humans: Emphasis on the Probable Role of Females in Overcoming Such Constraints. Human Nature 7(3):217-235, 1996.

Kinship-based resource sharing in the agrarian economy of frontier Slavonia 1698. With H. P. Kohler. The History of the Family 1:407-423, 1996.

Evaluating the Slavonian census of 1698. Part I: structure and meaning. (E. A. Hammel and K. Wachter) European Journal of Population 12:145-166, 1996.

Evaluating the Slavonian census of 1698. Part II: a microsimulation test and extension of the evidence. (E. Hammel and K. Wachter) European Journal of Population 12:295-326, 1996.

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