New Evidence on the Standard of Living in Sweden During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Long-Term Development of the Demographic Response to Short-Term Economic Stress

Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Bengtsson, Tommy ^a   Dribe, Martin ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agricultural revolution; Demography; Economic stress; Event history analysis; Fertility; Grain prices; Mortality; Real wages; Standard of living; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920106028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199280681.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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