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This paper reviews recent literature using stature and weight as measures of human welfare with a particular interest in cliometric or historical research. We begin with an overview of anthropometric evidence of living standards and the new but fast-growing field of anthropometric history. This...
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recent boom in Spain. This study presents the secular trend with height data of 19‐ 21 year‐old conscripts, corresponding to …This paper analyses the standard of living from the New Anthropometric History perspective and compares human height … evolution in France and Spain. Firstly, the importance of the height as an indicator to explore the evolution of the biological …
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, consumption, among other indicators. With male height data of military recruitment from the early eighteenth century and several … national surveys on health and height-by-age data from the European Community Panel, biological welfare trends of Europeans in … population stature from the 1850s onwards, after a period of height deterioration with unequal intensity in the majority of …
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The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have …, which clearly fuelled the fires of revolution. The height of the French upper classes was 7 cm above average, but, that, too …
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The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have …, which clearly fuelled the fires of revolution. The height of the French upper classes was 7 cm above average, but, that, too …
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The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have …, which clearly fuelled the fires of revolution. The height of the French upper classes was 7 cm above average, but, that, too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440939
The trend of the height of Indian scouts in the U.S. Army born between ca. 1825 and 1875 is analyzed. Their average … height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the … rural populations in the New World. The trend in their height describes a slightly inverted ”U” shape with an increase …
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The trend of the height of Indian scouts in the U.S. Army born between ca. 1825 and 1875 is analyzed. Their average … height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the … rural populations in the New World. The trend in their height describes a slightly inverted U shape with an increase between …
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This paper aims to deepen the understanding of the transit of traditional to modern monetary system and its impact on economic growth in the Spanish economy over the first half of the nineteenth century. The main sources on which the study of the monetary policy in this period is based, in...
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