Baten, Joerg; Hira, Sandew - In: Australian Economic History Review 48 (2008) 3, pp. 209-226
Anthropometric indicators can shed light on the 'Great Divergence' debate on the timing of the welfare development in China and Europe. We mobilise two new datasets of some 13,000 Southern Chinese contract migrants who were sent to Suriname and Indonesia, and thus supplement the limited existing...