This paper studies the relationship between pre-famine living conditions and famine severity. I digitise the parish … century and examine how they impacted the severity of The Great Famine. I find that income acted as a key co-variate of … determinant of famine severity, alongside the structural features of parishes, such as their distance from the nearest navigable …

The link between demographic pressure and economic conditions in pre-Famine Ireland has long interested economists …. This paper re-visits the topic, harnessing the highly disaggregated parish-level data from the 1841 Census of Ireland … Great Famine of 1846-50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor …

The link between demographic pressure and economic conditions in pre-Famine Ireland has long interested economists …. This paper re-visits the topic, harnessing the highly disaggregated parish-level data from the 1841 Census of Ireland … Great Famine of 1846{50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor …