Bailey, Roy E.; Hatton, Timothy J.; Inwood, Kris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of the First World War. We take a sample of the army service records and use this information to find the recruits as children in the 1901 census. Econometric results indicate that...