Schoch, Tobias; Staub, Kaspar; Pfister, Christian - In: Economics & Human Biology 10 (2012) 2, pp. 154-173
We analyze the first representative series of individual measurements of the height of Swiss conscripts for the years 1875–1950. We find that average height followed a general upward time trend, but the economic downturn in the 1880s slowed down the increase in rural average-heights while the...