This study investigates the short- and long-run impact on population dynamics of the major flood in the Netherlands in … 1953. A dynamic difference-in-differences analysis reveals that the flood had an immediate negative impact on population … positive effect on population growth. As a result, there has been an increase in population in flood prone areas. This …

Prologue: opening the door on Malthus's rollercoaster -- Before Malthus: population, economy and environment in … eighteenth century England -- Prophets of perfection: a revolutionary triptych -- The first inconvenient truth: Malthus's essay … and the quiet revolution of 1798 -- "Diarrhoea of the intellect": Malthus as the malign muse of romanticism -- Malthus and …

of population density in England from its year 1500 level raises the difference in the growth rates of land- and labor … discussed topic in economics since at least Malthus (1798). Whether fixed factors limit growth depends crucially on two …-industrial England. I find that the elasticity of substitution between land and other factors during this period was signicantly less …

depopulation (falling perhaps from ca. 1320) - by about 50% in England ca. 1450 - drastically altered the land:labour ratio so that … costs of foodstuffs. As Ricardo had argued, a population decline necessarily led to lower grain prices, reduced rents, as … taken from both England and Flanders (up to ca. 1500): i.e., from both a basically rural agrarian economy (England) and a …

effect of the first large-scale population resettlement in modern history. After the Greco-Turkish war of 1919–1922, 1 ….2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the Greek population by more than 20% within …

of 1919-1922, 1.2 million Greek Orthodox were forciblyresettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the host population by …