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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074715
environment is associated with poor health into adulthood - a scarring effect. The second: famine survivors do not themselves … suffer any health impact - a selection effect. Anthropometric evidence from records pertaining to over 21,000 subjects born … selection is strongest where famine mortality is highest. Individuals born in heavily-affected areas experienced no measurable …
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Voigtländer and Voth argue that the Black Death shifted England towards pastoral agriculture, increasing wages for unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this argument does not hold. Its crucial assumption is...
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How did Europe escape the "Iron Law of Wages?" We construct a simple Malthusian model with two sectors and multiple steady states, and use it to explain why European per capita incomes and urbanization rates increased during the period 1350-1700. Productivity growth can only explain a small...
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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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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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-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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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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