Sharp, Paul (contributor); Weisdorf, Jacob (contributor) - 2007
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1 Introduction
Since Malthus (1798), scholars have been fascinated by the evidence for a
negative correlation … between marriage rates and what Malthus termed the
“price of provisions”, for which a usual proxy is considered to be the … nuptiality and the price of
provisions would appear to contradict Malthus’ prediction, we use a simple
theoretical model to …