Infant mortality and the role of seigneurial tenure in Canada East, 1851

Geloso, Vincent; Arsenault Morin, Alex; Kufenko, Vadim

Infant mortality and the role of seigneurial tenure in Canada East, 1851

dc.contributor.author	Geloso, Vincent	de
dc.contributor.author	Arsenault Morin, Alex	de
dc.contributor.author	Kufenko, Vadim	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:52:06Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:52:06Z
dc.date.created	2015-12-21
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.description.abstract	This paper aims to explain differences in infant mortality across the colony of Quebec, known in the 1850s as Canada East, by institutional settings. Areas settled under French laws (known as seigneurial law) implied important transfers from peasants to landlords through private taxes and duties, restrictions on mobility, scant provision of public goods and disincentives to invest in agricultural productivity. As a result, areas under this law system tended to be poor and prone to high mortality. Upon conquering Quebec, the British maintained French land laws but, in 1791, the boundaries of its application were frozen – all newly settled lands would be under British land laws. By 1851, the two legal systems had cohabited for six decades – allowing us to compare them. Using the 1851 census, we argue that French seigneurial law – which reduced living standards through a variety of channels – translated into higher rates of infant mortality. After estimating a Zero-inflated Negative Binomial Regression we find that the effect of seigneurial tenure results in an increase in infant death rates from 43.79 to 44.89 for the age group below one and from 5.21 to 5.277 for the age group from one to five. Additionally, we conduct robustness checks by limiting the sample to large settlements and changing the age groups for the dependent variable.	en
dc.identifier.swb	453572693
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5975
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-11660
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung; 47
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-ohne-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_ubh.php
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Kanada	de
dc.subject.gnd	Siedlungsgeschichte	de
dc.subject.gnd	Kindersterblichkeit	de
dc.title	Infant mortality and the role of seigneurial tenure in Canada East, 1851	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	1166
local.series.issueNumber	47
local.series.title	Schriftenreihe des Promotionsschwerpunkts Globalisierung und Beschäftigung
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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