Population in Preindustrial England: An Econometric Analysis

Lee, Ronald

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“…from September 1845 until September 1847). Regarding the effect of food prices and following the idea of the existence of a threshold level under which the fluctuations of the food prices may be negligible (Lee, 1973;Livi-Bacci, 1991), we identified periods in which the prices fluctuated the most 27 and looked at the effects of these cyclical fluctuations on mortality later in life. We also re-did the analyses allowing for different effects of fluctuations above and under the trend and after we converted the value of the cyclical term for prices to a binary outcome.…”

Section: Sensitivity Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch Potato famine of 1846–1847

Lindeboom

Portrait

Berg³

2010

Journal of Health Economics

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Section: Sensitivity Analysismentioning

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Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch Potato famine of 1846–1847

Lindeboom

Portrait

Berg³

2010

Journal of Health Economics

136

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“…8 When birth and/or death rates respond to wages, as for example in Lee (1973), then equation 2 explains the change in population and should be modified by the addition of -P t-1 to the right hand side. In the interests of simplicity this modification is not implemented here.…”

Section: Population Natural Increase and The Economymentioning

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Economic-Demographic Interactions in Long-Run Growth

Foreman‐Peck

2014

Handbook of Cliometrics

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Cliometrics confirms that Malthus' model of the pre-industrial economy, in which increases in productivity raise population but higher population drives down wages, is a good description for much of demographic/economic history. A contributor to the Malthusian equilibrium was the Western European Marriage Pattern, the late age of female first marriage, which promised to retard the fall of living standards by restricting fertility. The demographic transition and the transition from Malthusian economies to modern economic growth attracted many Cliometric models surveyed here. A popular model component is that lower levels of mortality over many centuries increased the returns to, or preference for, human capital investment so that technical progress eventually accelerated. This initially boosted birth rates and population growth accelerated. Fertility decline was earliest and most striking in late eighteenth century France. By the 1830s the fall in French marital fertility is consistent with a response to the rising opportunity cost of children. The rest of Europe did not begin to follow until end of the nineteenth century. Interactions between the economy and migration have been modelled with Cliometric structures closely related to those of natural increase and the economy. Wages were driven up by emigration from Europe and reduced in the economies receiving immigrants.

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“…There is in fact a vast literature (e.g. Bailey and Chambers 1994;Lee 1973Lee , 2003Weir 1984) which by and large is unable to corroborate the existence of the long-run Malthusian equilibrium. 2 These results were established early on and recent studies have added econometric sophistication and robustness.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Malthus delusion

Persson¹

2008

European Review of Economic History

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Population in Preindustrial England: An Econometric Analysis

Cited by 111 publications

References 2 publications

Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch Potato famine of 1846–1847

Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch Potato famine of 1846–1847

Economic-Demographic Interactions in Long-Run Growth

The Malthus delusion

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