Family Income, Mortality, and Fertility on the Eve of the Demographic Transition

A Case Study of Rosny-Sous-Bois

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10102490
AutoresDavid R Weir (0000-0002-1661-2402, University of Chicago, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen55
Número1
Páginas1-26
Fecha de publicación1995-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022050700040559
OpenAlexW2148281779
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas32

This article combines uniquely detailed household-level tax assessments with reconstituted family histories for an eighteenth-century agricultural village near Paris. The tax records reveal substantial diversity in income among taxpayers despite the exemptions given privileged landowners. High-income households had significantly lower levels of infant and adult mortality, earlier age at marriage of the wife, and slightly lower rates of emigration by their surviving children. Marital fertility was high at all income levels. These classic Malthusian patterns were found at the household level more than a generation after the last great subsistence crises and resulted in a much higher local rate of replacement for the better-off families

Agriculture · Demographic economics · Demographic transition · Economics · Emigration · Fertility · Geography · Marital status · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Wife · Demography · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes