Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71385 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP10/37
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
Recent empirical research has questioned the validity of using Malthusian theory in pre-industrial England. Using real wage and vital rate data for the years 1650-1881, I provide empirical estimates for a different region - Northern Italy. The empirical methodology is theoretically underpinned by a simple Malthusian model, in which population, real wages and vital rates are determined endogenously. My findings strongly support the existence of a Malthusian economy where population growth depressed living standards, which in turn influenced vital rates. In addition, I find no evidence of Boserupian effects as increases in population failed to spur sustained technological growth.
Subjects: 
Economic history
Demographic economics
JEL: 
N33
J13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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