Was There A Crisis? Living Standards in Lower Canada, 1760 to 1848
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Vincent Geloso, George Mason University; Matthew Curtis, University of Southern Denmark
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Geloso, Vincent, and Curtis, Matthew. Was There A Crisis? Living Standards in Lower Canada, 1760 to 1848. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208081V1
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Lower Canada, now the Canadian province of Quebec, is believed to have faced an agricultural crisis in the early 1800s, leading to declining living standards, a debated topic due to lack of data. This paper uses new data on real wages, literacy, and infant mortality to quantitatively assess living standards from 1760 to 1850. The findings show no evidence of a crisis; instead, there are only indications of improvements during the period.
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