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The Appearence of Leasing Contracts in Scandinavia: Tenancy Contracts in Scania from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
Christer Lundh,Mats Olsson +1 more
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The impact of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic on economic performance in Sweden: an investigation into the consequences of an extraordinary mortality shock.
TL;DR: The 1918 influenza pandemic led to a significant increase in poorhouse rates and there is evidence that capital returns were negatively affected by the pandemic, but contrary to predictions, there is no discernible effect on earnings.
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Retirement as a strategy for land transmission: a micro-study of pre-industrial rural Sweden
Martin Dribe,Christer Lundh +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the frequency and form of intergenerational land transmission in pre-industrial rural Sweden and found that peasant retirement was still an important strategy of intergeneration land transmission at least until the midnineteenth century, but the way it was carried out changed from being mainly an intra-family affair to being channelled through the market.
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Manorial economy and corvee labour in southern Sweden 1650-1850
TL;DR: In this article, an inquiry into manorial production in Scania is presented, where it is shown that the peasants' most important contribution to the landlords became, in most cases, their corvee labour and their uncertain tenure rights were illustrated with great clarity in the continuing evictions, which were accelerated in the nineteenth century with the aim of expanding the demesne.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? The Impact of the 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic on Economic Performance in Sweden
TL;DR: It is found that the 1918 influenza pandemic led to a significant increase in poverty rates and there is relatively strong evidence that capital returns were negatively affected by the pandemic.
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Demographic Responses to Economic and Environmental Crises
TL;DR: In this article, a combined life-event and time-series analysis approach was used to analyze mortality crises in a rural area in southern Sweden by using a new approach, in which the influences of food prices, agricultural production and air temperature on mortality by age, sex and socio-economic status was analyzed.