Studies in historical living standards and health: integrating the household and children into historical measures of living standards and health

<p>This dissertation attempts to integrate the household and children more fluidly into measures of well-being in the past. In part one, I develop a Monte Carlo simulation to test some of the assumptions of Allen’s welfare ratio methodology. These included his assumptions that family size was...

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Main Author: Schneider, EB
Other Authors: Allen, RC
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
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