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BA University of Oxford (1990). Research. My research has focused on the social, economic, and environmental influences on infant, early child and maternal mortality, particularly over the course of the late ... Our website, Populations Past, provides an

Kuznets and de Vries have argued that excessive urban mortality rates precluded modern economic growth, with its concomitant rapid urbanisation, because no population could produce a rural population surplus sufficient to ... Economic History Review, 64(4

The opportunity they present for extending per capita analysis into the past means that they have become a standard reference for historical demography and economic history, and have been cited in ... Why do we need to calculate population size?

36. Economic development and economic growth: the poverty and imprecision of our terminology and concepts. ... 35. French occupational structure, industrialisation and economic growth in France, 1695 to the present.

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In this way the long fluctuations in marriage age until about 1750 have been attributed to extended economic cycles. ... depression and war, a period of economic prosperity, and the coming of the sexual revolution which, in the absence of reliable

Collaborators. Prof Toke Aidt, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. ... Did it differ between towns with different economic and geographical characteristics?

International and comparative work: comparing Britain's occupational structure with that of other countries allows us to appreciate whether and, if so, in what ways Britain's economic development was 'special'.

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It had potentially huge implications for understanding long-term patterns of economic growth. ... Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda, ‘The preventive check in medieval and preindustrial England’, Journal of Economic History, 72 (2012), 1015-35.