FAMILY INCOME, MORTALITY, AND FERTILITY ON THE EVE OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC-TRANSITION - A CASE-STUDY OF ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700040559
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 1-26
• 关键词: france; revolution; LIFE

摘要

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.