Survival of the richest: The Malthusian mechanism in pre-industrial England

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 707-736

  Clark, Gregory ^a   Hamilton, Gillian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; FERTILITY; MALTHUSIAN THEORY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL STATUS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749139317     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050706000301     Document Type: Article

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