Was Malthus right? A VAR analysis of economic and demographic interactions in pre-industrial England

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective (2014, background): “the precise period when economic growth began to accelerate and to diverge most from growth in other Western European economies (Galloway, 1988; Nicolini, 2007; Crafts and Mills, 2009).”
The Historical Fertility Transition: A Guide for Economists (2011, background): “More recently, Nicolini (2007) relies on a simple VAR model that he identifies by an assumption of “contemporaneous stickiness.””
From Malthus to Solow: How did the Malthusian economy really evolve? (2009, methodology): “The focus of this analysis, like that of Nicolini (2007), is to provide quantitative evidence on the workings of a Malthusian regime: in particular, of attempting to identify a period in which such a regime may actually have operated.”