Koepke, Nikola; Baten, Joerg - In: Explorations in Economic History 45 (2008) 2, pp. 127-146
Land per capita was one important determinant of height in the Malthusian world 0 to 1800 A.D. A second factor was specialization in milk cattle agriculture. It had two positive effects on human stature: first, proximity to protein production resulted in a very low local shadow price of milk, as...