Life Under Pressure: France and England, 1670–1870
通过比较法国和英格兰的历史数据，检验了关于婚姻、生育率和死亡率对经济冲击反应的两种假说，发现法国的婚姻反应更强，但生育率对生活水平的敏感度并未提高，质疑了马尔萨斯模型在早期现代欧洲经济史中的适用性。
Comparative methods are used to examine two hypotheses derived from Wrigley and Schofield's Population History of England . Contrary to their expectations, economic shocks produced greater marriage responses in France than in England, and the early onset of family limitation in France did not increase the responsiveness of marital fertility to living standards in the aggregate. Mortality was strongly dependent on economic shocks only in France prior to 1740. The results question the usefulness of Maithusian models for early modern European economic history.