The Poor Law of Old England : Resource Constraints and Demographic Regimes

England experienced a striking improvement in life expectancy between middle ages and the seventeenth century. This is not explained by an increase in real wages or better climatic conditions. We argue that it was partly a product of institutional change through the old poor law, which began to take shape and become effective early in the seventeenth century

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Kelly, Morgan
Other Persons:	O'Grada, Cormac (contributor)
Publisher:	[2010]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Armut \| Poverty \| Großbritannien \| United Kingdom \| Bevölkerungsentwicklung \| Demographic development

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (43 p)
Series:	University College Dublin Centre for Economic Research Working Paper ; No. 09/08
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments July 1, 2009 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1667843 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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