Life Under Pressure: France and England, 1670–1870

David R. Weir

The Journal of Economic History, 1984, vol. 44, issue 1, 27-47

Abstract: Comparative methods are used to examine two hypotheses derived from Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of England. Contrary to their expectations, economic shocks produced greater marriage responses in France than in England, and the early onset of family limitation in France did not increase the responsiveness of marital fertility to living standards in the aggregate. Mortality was strongly dependent on economic shocks only in France prior to 1740. The results question the usefulness of Maithusian models for early modern European economic history.

Date: 1984
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