Title: Demographic responses to economic stress in pre-industrial Europe and Asia: a micro approach

Organizers: Tommy Bengtsson (Sweden), George Alter (USA), Marco Breschi (Italy), Renzo Derosas (Italy), James Lee (USA), Michel Oris (Switzerland) and Noriko Tsuya (Japan)
Address: Tommy Bengtsson, Department of Economic History, PO Box 7083, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden. Ph: 46 46 222 7380. Fax: 46 46 222 7339. 
Email: tommy.bengtsson@ekh.lu.se.

Description of the session: From aggregated studies on pre-industrial populations, we know that short-term changes in food prices had a strong impact on fertility, but also
influenced mortality and migration. How different household characteristics moderates the effects are, however, largely unknown as are the causal mechanisms. In this session longitudinal data for individuals including information on occupation, household structures, etc. are combined with time series on grain prices to resolve these problems. Using an event history approach one can study how economic conditions (occupation, food prices, and institutions) and social conditions (household size and composition) affect a person's living standard trough its ability to marry, to have children, to migrate, even to live.

Participants: Robert C. Allen (UK), Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe (Sweden); Noriko Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu (Japan); Marco Breschi and Renzo Derosas (Italy); Tommy Bengtsson and Martin Dribe (Sweden); Cameron Campbell and James Lee (USA); Michel Oris (Switzerland), George Alter (USA) and Muriel Neven (Belgium). Discussant: Peter Lindert (USA). 
 

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