International Seminar on Social Mobility and Demographic Behavior: A Long Term Perspective

IUSSP Scientific Panel on Historical Demography (2007-2009)

Proceedings of the IUSSP Seminar on Demographic Responses to Sudden Economic and Environmental Change, Kashiwa, Japan, 21-23 May 2009:

Demographic Responses to Economic and Environmental Crises

Edited by Satomi Kurosu, Tommy Bengtsson and Cameron Campbell

Reitaku University, 2010

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Table of Contents

Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction

1 Mortality Crises in Rural Southern Sweden 1766-1860 Tommy Bengtsson and Göran Broström	1
2 Economic Crisis, Manorialism, and Demographic Response: Southern Sweden in the Preindustrial Period Martin Dribe, Mats Olsson and Patrick Svensson	17
3 Demographic Responses to Short-Term Economic Stress in a 19th Century Tuscan Sharecropping Population Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin, Giovanna Gonano, Matteo Manfredini and Chiara Seghieri	48
4 Demographic Responses to Short-Term Economic Stress in North East Italy: Friuli, 18th-19th Century Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin, Giovanna Gonano, Matteo Manfredini and Chiara Seghieri	65
5 To Die or to Leave: Demographic Responses to Famines in Rural Northeastern Japan, 1716-1870 Noriko O. Tsuya and Satomi Kurosu	79
6 Demographic Impacts of Climatic Fluctuations in Northeast China, 1749-1909 Cameron Campbell and James Lee	107
7 Reproductive Consequences of China’s Great Leap Forward Famine Yong Cai and Wang Feng	133
8 Political Turmoil, Economic Crisis, and International Migration in DR Congo: Evidence from Event-History Data (1975-2007) Bruno Schoumaker, Sophie Vause and José Mangalu	150
9 Determinants of Reconstruction after Major Earthquakes in Taiwan Ts’ui-jung Liu	172
10 The Impact of the Chi-chi Earthquake on Demographic Changes: An Event History Analysis Joan C. Lo	193
11 Drought and the Lifecycle/Landuse Trajectory in Agricultural Households Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, Myron Gutmann, Glenn D. Deane and Kenneth M. Sylvester	204
12 Changes in Broad Demographic Behaviors After the 2003 European Heat Wave François R. Herrmann, Jean-Marie Robine and Jean-Pierre Michel	227
13 Smallpox and Population Change in 18th and 19th Century Amakusa Islands, Kyusyu, Japan Satoshi Murayama and Noboru Higashi	239
14 Decrease of Child Deaths from Smallpox After the Introduction of Vaccination on the Outskirts of Edo (Tokyo), Japan Hiroshi Kawaguchi	252
15 Climate and Famine in Historic Japan: A Very Long-Term Perspective Osamu Saito	272
16 An Estimation of Spanish Influenza Mortality in Imperial Japan: 1918-20 Akira Hayami	282

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