Malthus in state space: Macro economic-demographic relations in English history, 1540 to 1870

By Ronald Lee, Michael W. Anderson. 2002

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From Malthus to Solow: How did the Malthusian economy really evolve? (2009, methodology): “These show similar patterns to those reported in Lee and Anderson (2002): the mortality intercept is almost identical for both real wage series, whereas the fertility intercept is smaller for Clark real wages than for WS real wages.”
How the West "invented" fertility restriction (2013, background): “The extent to which negative shocks raised death rates and lowered fertility rates is discussed by Anderson and Lee (2002), Galloway (1988), Crafts and Mills (2008), and Kelly and Ó Grada (2008).”
Was Malthus right? A VAR analysis of economic and demographic interactions in pre-industrial England (2007, background): “However , some approaches still estimate the positive check assuming parameter stability across the whole period (Lee and Anderson 2002); under this assumption , the estimation suggests that the positive check tends to be weaker than the preventive check.”
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800 (2017, unknown): “Second, it took decades or even centuries for populations to adjust to economics shocks, even in the Malthusian environment of medieval and early modern Europe (Lee and Anderson, 2002; Crafts and Mills, 2009).”