Standards of Living and the Life Cycle in Colonial Connecticut
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10100840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jackson Turner Main (William & Mary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 159-165 |
| Publication date | 1983-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700029132 |
| OpenAlex | W2153409851 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
Requirements for a subsistence standard of living and for higher levels in the colonial period changed with marital status. A man's income, his personal wealth, his consumption goods, and for farmers their land, had to increase with marriage and as children multiplied, though the old man might end as he began, dependent on other members of the family. In order to judge the proportion of men at different levels of wealth, and to measure inequality, the historian must construct a series of tables using all available measures of wealth for each stage in the life cycle
Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonial period · Colonialism · Construct (python library · Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Marital status · Market economy · Order (exchange · Population · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Standard of living · Subsistence agriculture · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Demography · Finance · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Mathematics
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2016 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |