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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2011-12)The human costs of famines outlast the famines themselves. An increasing body of research points to their adverse long-run consequences for those born or in utero during them. This paper offers an introduction to the ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2006)In a postscript to his Recherches sur la population (1766), political arithmetician Louis Messance made the case for a positive association mortality and the price of wheat. The true author of the postscript was probably ...
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(University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Research, 2004-01)Research linking food prices and excess mortality has a long history in applied economics and economic history. It goes back to 1766, when Jean-Baptiste de la Michodière was the first to use empirical data to argue for a ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1985)How migration affects economic welfare in sending and receiving countries is an important issue. This paper deals mainly with one aspect, the relation between immigration and the real wage in the host country. Theory is ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-05)This paper augments the new historical literature on factor price convergence. The focus is on the late nineteenth century, when economic convergence among the current OECD countries was dramatic; and the focus is on the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-11)Recent empirical research has questioned the validity of using Malthusian theory in pre-industrial England. Using real wage and vital rate data for the years 1650-1881, I provide empirical estimates for a different region ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-07)This paper complements a much larger study of school attendance in pre-famine Ireland by FitzGerald (2010). It exploits some of the data generated by that study to analyze further some of the determinants of schooling and ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1986-04)The O'Brien Lecture, delivered at University College Dublin on 15 May 1986.
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