Coppola, Michela - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 4, pp. 453-464
collected data on the height of recruits in the army of the Papal States. The results reveal a decline in height for the cohorts … decline suggests a worsening of the biological standard of living of the working classes in the Papal States even relative to … that of other countries. Despite the differences in the economic systems within the Papal States, no significant …