The first poverty line? Davies' and Eden's investigation of rural poverty in the late 18th-century England
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Keywords
Agriculture; Rural households; Budgets; Poverty line; Earnings; Expenditure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
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