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Lotta Vikström
Researcher at Umeå University
Publications - 43
Citations - 280
Lotta Vikström is an academic researcher from Umeå University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Life course approach & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 37 publications receiving 220 citations.
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Sex preference for children in German villages during the fertility transition
Glenn Sandström,Lotta Vikström +1 more
TL;DR: It appears that son preference influenced reproductive behaviour: couples having only girls experienced significantly higher transition rates than those having only boys or a mixed sibset.
Identifying dissonant and complementary data on women through the triangulation of historical sources
TL;DR: A historical demographer practises data triangulation by combining qualitative and quantitative sources to explore how these sources identify nineteenth‐century women's occupations and thus challenge the gender bias found in population registers as they report incomplete information on women's work.
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Identifying dissonant and complementary data on women through the triangulation of historical sources
TL;DR: In this article, a historical demographer practises data triangulation by combining three types of triangulations, i.e., historical, sociological, and historical data.
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Cripping Time : Understanding the Life Course through the Lens of Ableism
TL;DR: In this article, a linear chain of events from bi-directional time is used to predict appropriate life stage progression in a linear sequence of events in a life-course theory, where time intersects with the life course to dictate discourses of appropriate life-stage progression.
Gendered routes and courses : The socio-spatial mobility of migrants in nineteenth-century Sundsvall, Sweden
TL;DR: This article examined migrants during a time of large-scale socio-economic transformations in the town of Sundsvall, Sweden, during the nineteenth-century period, and found that these changes were particularly evident in the 19th-century town of Sweden.