Short-term Economic Fluctuations and Demographic Behaviour: Some Examples from Twentieth-Century South America

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The relationship between economic realities and demographic behaviour has occupied center stage in most demographic research since Malthus underlined its importance nearly two centuries ago. For Malthus, the ‘invisible hand’ whereby population growth was kept in line with economic realities was materialized through the relationships between economic well-being, and fertility and mortality. This has been an ongoing theme in much of the existing historical literature. Malthus set his model in the medium and long term, and in recent years some authors, in particular Ronald Lee, have attempted to specify in a more formal manner the empirical parameters of these relationships.’

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