’What do you do for a living?’ - Sex-specific mortality in historical times • Svenja Weise, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

The evolutionary demography of the family: a review of the effects of kin on child mortality and female fertility rates • Rebecca Sear, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Is it a biomarker, a biomeasure, or a bioindicator? Research models to organize biomedical data for demographic analysis • James W. McNally, University of Michigan ; Martha Sayre, University of Michigan

Pioneers’ demographic legacy: a measure of the descendances of early immigrants in the Quebec population (17th-20th centuries) • Marc Tremblay, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi ; Bertrand Desjardins, Université de Montréal ; Houde Louis, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières ; Helene Vezina, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi