%0 Journal Article
%T Demographic Responses to Short-Term Stress in a 19th Century Tuscan Population: The case of household out-migration
%A Marco Breschi
%A Matteo Manfredini
%A Alessio Fornasin
%J Demographic Research
%D 2011
%I Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
%X 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.
%K emigration
%K household
%K Italy
%K sharecropping
%K short-term stress
%U http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol25/15/