Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - In: The Journal of Economic History 72 (2012) 04, pp. 1015-1035
England's post-Reformation demographic regime has been characterized as “low pressure.” Yet the evidence hitherto for the presence of a preventive check, defined as the short-run response of marriage and births to variations in living standards, is rather weak. New evidence in this article...