Lisa Dillon

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at Université de Montréal

Early life environments can have long-lasting effects on adult reproductive performance, but disentangling the influence of early and adult life environments on fitness is challenging, especially for long-lived species. Using a detailed dataset spanning over two centuries, we studied how both early and adult life environments impacted reproductive...

Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioural sciences, biology, and related disciplines. By...

Early life environments can have long-lasting effects on adult reproductive performance, but disentangling the influence of early and adult life environments on fitness is challenging, especially for long-lived species. Using a detailed dataset spanning over two centuries, we studied how early and adult life environments impact reproductive perform...

Since 1966, the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) has worked to create comprehensive genealogical data of the Quebec population. The PRDH longitudinal database, the Registre de la population du Québec ancien (RPQA), draws upon the French Catholic parish registers of the St. Lawrence Valley as its main source material. This fam...

The authors would like to correct the second sentence of the abstract to read: "First, we use Lexis surfaces based on Serfling models to highlight influenza mortality patterns as well as to identify lingering effects of early-life exposure to specific influenza virus subtypes (e.g., H1N1, H3N2)."

This study examines the roles of age, period, and cohort in influenza mortality trends over the years 1959–2016 in the United States. First, we use Lexis surfaces based on Serfling models to highlight influenza mortality patterns as well as to identify lingering effects of early-life exposure to specific influenza virus subtypes (e.g., H1N1, H3N2)....

The 1831 census database is the newest addition to the series of 19th century Canadian census microdata available for social science research, thanks to a collaboration between the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) and FamilySearch. This article presents the work undertaken to prepare this database and the main challenges enco...

Life-history theory predicts that selection could favor the decoupling of somatic and reproductive senescence if post-reproductive lifespan (PRLS) provides additional indirect fitness benefits [1, 2]. The grandmother hypothesis proposes that prolonged PRLS evolved because post-reproductive grandmothers gain inclusive fitness benefits by helping the...

Objectives Research on historical populations in Europe finds that infectious disease epidemics appear to induce predictable cycles in age‐specific mortality. We know little, however, about whether such cycles also occurred in less dense founder populations of North America. We used high‐quality data on the Quebecois population from 1680 to 1798 to...

Recent outbreaks of H5, H7, and H9 influenza A viruses in humans have served as a vivid reminder of the potentially devastating effects that a novel pandemic could exert on the modern world. Those who have survived infections with influenza viruses in the past have been protected from subsequent antigenically similar pandemics through adaptive immu...

In this comparative article of European and American contexts, we investigate how siblings influence individuals’ access to marriage. We use a comparative and quantitative event history analysis approach to identify similarities and differences between the contexts studied. We find evidence in both contexts of customs that stipulated that siblings...

The Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Historical Demography Research Programme) (PRDH), founded in 1966 and based at the Département de Démographie of the Université de Montréal, has since its inception featured a central project, a family reconstitution database of Quebec’s Catholic population from 1621 to 1799 named the Registre d...

This article investigates the relationship between additional siblings and the probability of offspring survival, marriage, and fertility across the historical populations of the St Lawrence Valley in Quebec (1670–1799) and the Krummhörn region in Germany (1720–1874). Both populations existed in agriculturally based economies, but differ in importa...

This book addresses the problems that are encountered, and solutions that have been proposed, when we aim to identify people and to reconstruct populations under conditions where information is scarce, ambiguous, fuzzy and sometimes erroneous. The process from handwritten registers to a reconstructed digitized population consists of three major ph...

This chapter discusses the issues of missing and uncertain data in the Canadian census sample of 1852 within the context of automatic linkage with the complete census of 1881. The resulting linked sample from these two censuses was created to provide an opportunity to study intergenerational social mobility in Canada between fathers (in 1852) and s...

For almost two centuries social theorists have argued that the fundamental difference in social structure between Europe and North America arises from greater economic and geographic mobility in North America. We study social mobility in three countries across two generations using machine learning techniques to create panels of individuals linked...

Le premier recensement nominatif canadien du xixe siecle, celui de 1851-1852 pour le Canada-Est et le Canada-Ouest, represente une occasion unique de comprendre les comportements sociaux observes a cette epoque. Cette analyse approfondie, axee sur un echantillon aleatoire de 20 %, relativise les critiques formulees a son encontre : les donnees prov...

John Belshaw's Becoming British Columbia: A Population History is a refreshing, accessible, and thoughtful examination of the evolution of British Columbia's population across three centuries. This book is a synthesis of information drawn from aggregate census and vital statistics data, mission and parish registers for select communities, secondary...

This article targets marriage as well as celibacy as critical demographic phenomena which illuminate the evolution of social reproduction and the balance of intergenerational power. The study draws upon the Registre de la population du Québec ancien which extends from 1621 to 1799 to address family influences on the timing of marriage in seventeent...

The federal government’s decision in June 2010 to replace the long form Canadian census with the voluntary National Household Survey (NHS) was met with vigorous opposition. While the opponents unanimously denounced the voluntary National Household Survey on the basis that it would suffer from the differential (and largely unmeasurable) non-response...

In late-nineteenth-century North America, privately financed retirement emerged as a recognized phenomenon. While scholars acknowledge these origins, the prevalence of retirement remains intensely debated. The 1901 Canadian census explicitly required the enumerator to ask respondents if they had retired. The question makes it possible to correct es...

In late-nineteenth-century North America, privately financed retirement emerged as a recognized phenomenon. While scholars acknowledge these origins, the prevalence of retirement remains intensely debated. The 1901 Canadian census explicitly required the enumerator to ask respondents if they had retired. The question makes it possible to correct es...

Concerns about aging, old age security, and intergenerational relations existed long before youth culture and falling fertility became such popular media topics. Lisa Dillon uses an examination of the censuses of Canada and the U.S. to break new ground by integrating statistical analyses of the historical data with a discourse analysis of ideas abo...

Un echantillon du recensement effectue en 1852 dans le Canada-Est et le Canada-Ouest, sous forme de fichier lisible par machine, s’ajoutera bientot a la sequence de bases de donnees en cours de construction a partir des recensements canadiens des 19e et 20e siecles. La base contiendra 259 000 personnes, soit 20 pour cent de la population recensee e...

The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) brings together complete-count census data from late-nineteenth-century Canada, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, and the United States into a single harmonized database. When released in 2005, the final version of the database will include the records of nearly 90 million people. The project will consiste...

The North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP) is a complete-count data set of late-nineteenth-century censuses from Canada, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, and the United States. One of the project's most challenging tasks is the coding and classification of 2 million distinct responses to occupational questions. Using the Historical International S...

This article outlines the general procedures followed in harmonizing the 1870 and 1900 U.S. PUMS with the 1871 and 1901 Canadian census microdata. The similarity of these data and the enumerations on which they are based generally outweigh their differences. One unexpected reward of integrating historical census microdata is finding out how this pr...

This article compares the life course transitions and household statuses of Canadian and American women and men in late nineteenth-century Canada and the United States. Using a set of integrated census data from 1871 Canada and the United States in 1880, the article suggests that household status differences between the two nations centered on gend...

The comparative use of census data is a useful way to study social characteristics across national boundaries. However, truly comparative demographic history is not possible without fully integrating separate census data, uniting multiple data files with a common set of comparably coded variables. This paper describes the integration of the 1871 Ca...

HISTORIANS HAVE experimented with computing technology for decades, using it as a tool in their scholarship to ask new questions and analyse new sources. For the most part, historians have used statistical software and adopted techniques from the social sciences. They have analysed voting returns, migration, social mobility, family patterns, and a...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1997. Includes bibliographical references.