. Using population figures in a dataset comprising 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find no effects of Protestantism on …

The world population growth accelerated in the eighteenth century, which caused real wages to decline in most countries …. Recent data for Sweden implies that population growth was stronger in the seventeenth century than in the eighteenth century … attempts to resolve the anomaly, and argues that recent estimates of Swedish population and mortality rates are too low for the …

. Using population per value adjusted acre as a measure of population pressure, our results indicate that on the eve of the … Great Famine of 1846-50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor … quality housing. But while our analysis shows that population pressure was one of the primary factors underpinning pre …

. Using population per value adjusted acre as a measure of population pressure, our results indicate that on the eve of the … Great Famine of 1846{50, population pressure was positively associated with both illiteracy rates and the prevalence of poor … quality housing. But while our analysis shows that population pressure was one of the primary factors underpinning pre …

I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …