Volume 25 - Article 15 | Pages 491–512  

Demographic responses to short-term stress in a 19th century Tuscan population: The case of household out-migration

By Marco Breschi, Alessio Fornasin, Matteo Manfredini

Abstract

This paper deals with the relationship between household emigration and short-term crisis in a rural community of mid-19th century Tuscany. Based on a detailed reconstruction of individual and household life-histories, the paper shows the close relationship between household emigration and different kinds of short-term stresses, either economic, epidemiologic or within the household. Despite the different response by SES - with the poorest strata of the population much exposed to price changes and mortality crisis - the death of the household head appears as one of the most powerful factor of household emigration.

Author’s Affiliation

• Marco Breschi - Università degli Studi di Sassari (UniSS), Italy EMAIL
• Alessio Fornasin - Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy EMAIL
• Matteo Manfredini - Università degli Studi di Parma (UNIPR), Italy EMAIL

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