Epidemic Mortality and Redistribution of Housing Wealth in Leiden, 1632–68
利用17世纪莱顿的街道级死亡率与房屋所有权数据，发现流行病虽增加低价值房屋流转，但因人口快速恢复和房价未调整，房屋在长期所有者间传递，未改变总体住房财富不平等。
How did epidemic mortality affect housing wealth in the pre-industrial period? Using new data on house ownership and variation in street-level mortality in seventeenth-century Leiden, we show that although epidemic mortality targeted poor streets where residents were typically tenants and not owners, these outbreaks still increased the turnover of houses. Ordinarily, turnover was higher in owner-occupied housing sectors, while epidemics created more turnover for low-value houses consolidated in the hands of wealthy investors. In combination with a lack of house price adjustments due to rapid demographic recovery after epidemics, this meant that houses were passed between long-standing owners with similar housing wealth profiles. As a result, epidemics did not affect aggregate housing wealth inequality.