. This paper examines how and how well households in pre-modern Japan reallocated land and labor, using a population register …In agricultural societies, adjusting land and labor according to changes of labor endowment that result from family … life cycle events is premised on making full use of resources for each farming household and for the economy as a whole …

"This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at Japan's economic history from … the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting analysis of Japan's economic past in the light fresh theoretical … perspectives in the study of economic history and development. Francks draws out the historical roots of the institutions and …