Baten, Joerg; Ma, Debin; Morgan, Stephen; Wang, Qing - In: Explorations in Economic History 47 (2010) 3, pp. 347-359
This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age-heaping to examine the long-term trend of living standards and human capital for China during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Our findings confirm the existence of a...