Large-scale mortality shocks and the Great Irish Famine 1845-1852

Summary, in English

This paper considers the consequences of a large scale mortality shock arising from a famine or epidemic for long run economic and demographic development. The Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852 is taken as a case-study and is incorporated as an exogenous mortality shock into the type of long-run unified growth theory pioneered by Galor and Weil (1999, 2000), and modelled by Lagerlof (2003a,b) among others. Through calibration, the impact of such a mortality shock occurring on the cusp of a country's transition from a Malthusian to a Modern Growth regime is then depicted. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

• Författare: Declan Curran; Maria Fröling
• Avdelning/ar: Institutionen för byggvetenskaper
• Publiceringsår: 2010
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 1302-1314
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Economic Modelling
• Volym: 27
• Issue: 5
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2010.01.016
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Elsevier
• Ämne: Applied Mechanics
• Nyckelord: Unified growth theory; Long-run growth; Ireland; Mortality
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 0264-9993