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

A Case Study of Rosny-Sous-Bois

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10102490
AutoresDavid R Weir (0000-0002-1661-2402, University of Chicago, autor correspondente)
Ano1995
Volume55
Fascículo1
Páginas1-26
Data de publicação1995-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022050700040559
OpenAlexW2148281779
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências 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