Breschi Marco and Livi Bacci Massimo. ? The Effect of Season and Climate on the Survival of Children in Italy during the Nineteenth Century. In the past infant mortality rates were influenced by climatic conditions and must, therefore, have varied for children born during different months. In...

De Santis (Gustavo), Livi Bacci (Massimo). - Population reproduction: a method of breakdown and estimation This article shows how, working with a number of loose hypotheses, a classic measure of reproduction Ro can be broken down into a series of multiplicative components, each of which reflects...

Low fertility in Italy has diseconomies that are widely recognized, but public transfers to families and children are way below the EU average. A proposal that could have pro-natalist effects envisages the creation of a fund for each newborn that would be accrued by yearly public transfers (and,...

The paper will basically deal with four issues. The first one puts current changes or shifts into a historical comparative perspective. The second deals with "traditional" shocks or violent disturbances of the system and their consequences. The third discusses the "seismic" changes experienced...

During the century following Columbus's landfall, the population of America experienced a precipitous decline. A widely accepted explanation is the diffusion of Eurasian pathogens among the nonimmune Indians with the attendant catastrophic mortality. Contemporary observers-conquerors,...