statistical approach we develop enables comparisons of the full distributions of height data from potential army conscripts across …

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 … cyclicality of deviations from average height, was likely to be affected by cycles in economic activity. …

We present evidence on the 19th-century trend in the height of male US passport applicants. These men represent a much … wealthier segment of contemporary society than found in most stature samples previously analyzed. The height trend among the … increase in the ‘height gap’—by roughly 1in. between cohorts born around 1820 and 1860—is in congruence with evidence on rising …

schools studied the average height of Jewish students was approximately 1cm below that of Gentiles. This height …

claims that there was a dramatic reduction in either food availability or the average height of birth cohorts in the late …

this problem using the height of the Hangryu deceased, a dead person who did not have any acquaintances to claim the body …. We found that the height of male Hangryu deceased, ages 25 to 30, increased by 2.2 cm during the colonial period. This … such as when this growth in height started and what initiated this pattern need further investigation. …

Since the pioneering study of Le Roy Ladurie and his team, the idea that mean height can be considered as a reliable … indicator of the standard of living has emerged from a long debate among historians and economists. Considering height in this … prove that this “French exception” did not, in fact, exist. The larger the town, the shorter were the conscripts. Among the …

also the influence that social inequality had upon biological well-being. The height data of 82,039 conscripts constitute … Mediterranean Spain. During the period under study, the average height of conscripts increased by 7.5cm, while the coefficient of …This article analyses not only the determinants of the height of Spain's male populations between 1859 and 1960 but …

We study the recent evolution of top incomes in Switzerland, analyzing both social security data on labor incomes and ….01 percent’s share even doubled, putting Switzerland similar to European countries for the top 1 percent group but closer to the … suggests that labor incomes have become more important among top income earners in Switzerland. This is in line with findings …