height. Urbanization was important, although the importance declined over time. Income apparently had little effect on health …) predictor of height and the body mass index, while it is also possible to predict early childhood experience from terminal adult …

height and use province level information for investigating the determinants of biological wellbeing. The results indicate a … decline of more than 1.5 cm cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …

This paper uses height data recorded on Convict Indents to study temporal patterns and regional differences in living … parts of Europe. The Irish attained roughly the 16th centile of modern height standards and, though smaller than …

This paper is a progress report on the usefulness of data on physical height for the analysis of long-ten changes in … the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …-born. American Revolution, but there were long periods of declining nutrition and height during the 19th century. Similar cycling has …

This paper reviews the evidence regarding the main trends in the height of the British population since the early …

The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and those by which higher income protects health status …, are of interest to both researchers and policy makers. In general, quantifying the impact of income on health is difficult …, given the simultaneous determination of health and income. In this paper, we quantify the impact on health status of a large …

health status of the population. The present study develops a methodology and presents preliminary estimates of how standard … economic measures would change if they adequately reflected improvements in health status. The study first discusses the theory … concept called 'health income' that can be used to incorporate improvements in health status. The study next discusses how the …

developments by examining an important aspect of living standards--health and nutrition--since the Middle Ages. I use average … early twentieth century. The paper links the decline in average height to climate deterioration; growing inequality … is plausible to link height gains that began in the eighteenth century with dietary improvements …