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A Theory of Medicine Effectiveness, Differential Mortality, Income Inequality and Growth for Pre-Industrial England

de la Croix, David - 2006

We study how mortality reductions and income growth interact, looking at their relationship prior to the Industrial … individual health expenditures even when medicine was not effective in postponing death. We then explain the rise of effective … medicine by a learning process function of expenditures in health. The rise in effective medicine can then be linked to the …

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An anthropometric history of early-modern France

Komlos, John; Hau, Michel; Bourginat, Nicolas - 2003

The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have been about 162 cm in the 17th century. This extremely short stature implies that "the crisis of the 17th century" had an immense impact on the human organism itself. The...

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An Anthropometric History of Early-Modern France

Komlos, John - 2003

The height of the French male population of the Ancien Regime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have been about 162 cm in the 17th century. This extremely short stature implies that, 'the crisis of the 17th century' had an immense impact on the human organism itself. The...

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Longevity and the Rise of the West : Lifespans of the European Elite, 800-1800

Cummins, Neil - 2014

I analyze the age at death of 121,524 European nobles from 800 to 1800. Longevity began increasing long before 1800 and the Industrial Revolution, with marked increases around 1400 and again around 1650. Declines in violence contributed to some of this increase, but the majority must reflect...

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Forced migration and mortality

Bauer, Thomas K.; Giesecke, Matthias; Janisch, Laura M. - 2017

mortality risk among forced migrants compared to native West-Germans. The adverse displacement effect persists throughout the … earnings distribution except for the top quintile. Although forced migrants are generally worse off regarding mortality …

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Forced migration and mortality

Bauer, Thomas K.; Giesecke, Matthias; Janisch, Laura M. - 2017

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On the biological standard of living of eighteenth-century Americans : taller, richer, healthier

Komlos, John - 2003

generally in keeping with trends in mortality and in economic activity. The Americans were much taller than Europeans: by the …

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On plague in a time of Ebola

Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

-15 Ebola outbreak in terms of mortality. This essay reviews the mortality due to the two diseases and their lethality; the … spatial and socioeconomic dimensions of plague mortality; the role of public action in containing the two diseases; and their …

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On plague and Ebola in a time of COVID-19

Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2020

and COVID-19 in terms of mortality. This essay reviews the mortality due to Ebola and plague and their lethality; the … spatial and socioeconomic dimensions of plague mortality; the role of public action in containing the two diseases; and their …

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Across the sea to Ireland : return Atlantic migration before the First World War

Fernihough, Alan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2019

Are return migrants 'losers' who fail to adapt to the challenges of the host economy, and thereby exacerbate the brain drain linked to emigration? Or are they 'winners' whose return enhances the human and physical capital of the home country? These questions are the subject of a burgeoning...

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