World poverty rates can be reliably estimated for periods prior to 1800.
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SUPPORTED
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Economic historians and historical demographers utilize diverse pre-industrial records, such as subsistence welfare ratios and parish data, to reliably estimate population development and poverty rates prior to 1800.
Evidence for · 2
A Bayesian Reconstruction of a Historical Population in Finland, 1647-1850.
2020 · cited by 5
This study demonstrates how historical demographic and parish-level data can be modeled to reconstruct population development prior to 1800.
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Re-examining extreme poverty before and after the transition to capitalism, 1300s–1900s: the issue of definition, periodization, measurement, and causal responsibility
2024 · cited by 1
This paper evaluates non-GDP-based historical sources and metrics to analyze extreme poverty and living standards dating back to the 1300s.