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Living standards and mortality since the Middle Ages

Kelly, Morgan ; Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-09)

Existing studies find little connection between living standards and mortality in England, but go back only to the sixteenth century. Using new data on inheritances, we extend estimates of mortality back to the ...
Malthusian dynamics in a diverging Europe : Northern Italy 1650-1881

Fernihough, Alan (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 ...