Chevet, Jean-Michel

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    Grain prices and mortality : a note on La Michodières law
    (University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Research, 2004-01)
    Ó Gráda, Cormac 
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    Chevet, Jean-Michel 
    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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