Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population: The case of household out-migration

Marco Breschi, Matteo Manfredini and Alessio Fornasin
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Marco Breschi: Università degli Studi di Sassari (UniSS)
Matteo Manfredini: Università degli Studi di Parma (UNIPR)
Alessio Fornasin: Università degli Studi di Udine

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 25, issue 15, 491-512

Abstract: This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relationship between household emigration and different kinds of short-term stresses, either economic, epidemiologic or within the household. Despite the different response by SES - with the poorest strata of the population much exposed to price changes and mortality crisis - the death of the household head appears as one of the most powerful factor of household emigration.

Keywords: household; Italy; emigration; sharecropping; short-term stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.25.15

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