Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - In: Oxford Economic Papers 62 (2010) 1, pp. 157-184
This article examines the effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardized heights and body mass index (BMI) of children in Interwar Britain, using the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937--9. We examine the trade-off between child quality (in the form...