Laurel L. Cornell
Cornell University
4 Papers
110 Citations
Laurel L. Cornell is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Head of Household. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications.
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The Shumon Aratame Cho: Japan's Population Registers:
Laurel L. Cornell,Akira Hayami +1 more
TL;DR: Local population registers were compiled in Japan from about 1670 on and continued for the next two centuries as discussed by the authors, as part of an effort to exterminate Christianity, these "registers of religious investigation" (shumon aratarne cho) list the name, age, and relationship to head of household for individuals in villages and towns throughout Japan.
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Hajnal and the household in Asia: a comparativist history of the family in preindustrial Japan 1600-1870.
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between household formation fertility and family relations in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japan and summarized previous work on the history of the family in Japan and discussed the role life-cycle service played in adjusting fertility to economic conditions.
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Family Strategy: A Dialogue
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a family strategy: a dialogue between families and family strategy. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two sides of the dialogue, and they focus on the family's history.
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Why Are There No Spinsters in Japan
TL;DR: This article found that spinsters are rare in Western Europe and there are few economic bars to marriage, but, more importantly, there are no careers for unmarried women in the Western European folk model of spinsterhood and women whose prospects are slim are deliberately placed in households as married women.
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