This paper surveys the results of four recent, separate attempts at estimating agricultural output and food availability in England and Wales at points between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. It highlights ...
Ó Gráda, Cormac(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 ...
Our goal here is to offer a better understanding of why workhouse mortality was as high as it was, how it varied across Ireland, and how it affected different groups in the population such as women or children.