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Grain Prices and Mortality - A Note on La Michodières Law

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  • Jean-Michel Chevet

    (INRA-CORELA-CRH, Paris)

  • Cormac Ó Gráda

    (University College Dublin)

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Research linking food prices and excess mortality has a long history in applied economics and economic history. It goes back to 1766, when Jean-Baptiste de la Michodière was the first to use empirical data to argue for a positive association between wheat prices and mortality. Here La Michodière's time series are subjected to closer statistical scrutiny: the correlation survives, though it is less strong than some later scholars asserted. We also test for the price-mortality link using cross- section data for the 1690s and 1700s.

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  • Jean-Michel Chevet & Cormac Ó Gráda, 2004. "Grain Prices and Mortality - A Note on La Michodières Law," Working Papers 200401, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:200401
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