dc.contributor.author | Voutilainen, Miikka | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-25T08:29:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-25T08:29:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Voutilainen, M. (2022). Income inequality and famine mortality : evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s. <i>Economic History Review</i>, <i>75</i>(2), 503-529. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13095" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13095</a> | |
dc.identifier.other | CONVID_100230769 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/77486 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines whether economic inequality intensified the adverse effects of harvest, price, and income shocks during a famine. Using a parish-level longitudinal dataset from the Finnish famine of the 1860s, it shows that a substantial proportion of the excess mortality experienced during the famine resulted from a decline in agricultural production, a decline in incomes, and a surge in food prices. The findings indicate that the adverse effects of food output fluctuations were intensified by increasing income inequality and decreasing average income, while the market-transmitted shocks were weakened by a contraction of disposable income. The results are corroborated with multiple alternative estimation techniques, including the introduction of spatial spill-overs. The results show that even a pre-industrial famine affecting an impoverished society was meaningfully defined by the distribution of incomes. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Wiley-Blackwell | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Economic History Review | |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | |
dc.subject.other | famines | |
dc.subject.other | Finland | |
dc.subject.other | inequality | |
dc.subject.other | nineteenth century | |
dc.subject.other | poverty | |
dc.title | Income inequality and famine mortality : evidence from the Finnish famine of the 1860s | |
dc.type | research article | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202108254650 | |
dc.contributor.laitos | Historian ja etnologian laitos | fi |
dc.contributor.laitos | Department of History and Ethnology | en |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | |
dc.type.coar | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 | |
dc.description.reviewstatus | peerReviewed | |
dc.format.pagerange | 503-529 | |
dc.relation.issn | 0013-0117 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 2 | |
dc.relation.volume | 75 | |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.copyright | © 2021 the Author | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | fi |
dc.type.publication | article | |
dc.relation.grantnumber | 308975 | |
dc.subject.yso | kuolleisuus | |
dc.subject.yso | nälänhätä | |
dc.subject.yso | eriarvoisuus | |
dc.subject.yso | suuret nälkävuodet (1866–1868) | |
dc.subject.yso | köyhyys | |
dc.subject.yso | väestöhistoria | |
dc.subject.yso | taloushistoria | |
dc.format.content | fulltext | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p5003 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p3395 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p3478 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p18028 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p3476 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p5344 | |
jyx.subject.uri | http://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p17789 | |
dc.rights.url | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.relation.doi | 10.1111/ehr.13095 | |
dc.relation.funder | Research Council of Finland | en |
dc.relation.funder | Suomen Akatemia | fi |
jyx.fundingprogram | Academy Project, AoF | en |
jyx.fundingprogram | Akatemiahanke, SA | fi |
jyx.fundinginformation | OP Group Research Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 20180071; Academy of Finland, Grant/Award Number: 308975 | |
dc.type.okm | A1 | |