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Church Book Registry: A Cliometric View

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This chapter links economic history to demography, looking into the use of church book data to investigate topics in economic history. Using the Malthusian population model to cast light on scholarly debates about the Great Divergence and the wealth of nations, the chapter illustrates some of the main advantages (and drawbacks) to using church book registry in this context.

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    Some scholars have even found evidence of the opposite, documenting a positive relationship between nuptiality and the price of wheat, a phenomenon they coined permissive checks (Sharp and Weisdorf 2009).

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    Jacob Weisdorf

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Weisdorf, J. (2014). Church Book Registry: A Cliometric View. In: Diebolt, C., Haupert, M. (eds) Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40458-0_1-1

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