recent boom in Spain. This study presents the secular trend with height data of 19‐ 21 year‐old conscripts, corresponding to …This paper analyses the standard of living from the New Anthropometric History perspective and compares human height … evolution in France and Spain. Firstly, the importance of the height as an indicator to explore the evolution of the biological …

statistical approach we develop enables comparisons of the full distributions of height data from potential army conscripts across …

, consumption, among other indicators. With male height data of military recruitment from the early eighteenth century and several … national surveys on health and height-by-age data from the European Community Panel, biological welfare trends of Europeans in … population stature from the 1850s onwards, after a period of height deterioration with unequal intensity in the majority of …

We analyze the first representative series of individual measurements of the height of Swiss conscripts for the years … 1875–1950. We find that average height followed a general upward time trend, but the economic downturn in the 1880s slowed … cyclicality of deviations from average height, was likely to be affected by cycles in economic activity. …

The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have …, which clearly fuelled the fires of revolution. The height of the French upper classes was 7 cm above average, but, that, too …