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The biological standard of living and mortality in Central Italy at the beginning of the 19th century
Coppola, Michela - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 4, pp. 453-464
The biological standard of living in Central Italy at the beginning of the 19th century is analyzed using newly collected data on the height of recruits in the army of the Papal States. The results reveal a decline in height for the cohorts born under French rule (1796–1815). Although this...
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Socio-economic Differences in Heights of Adult Indian Women
Viswanathan, Brinda; Sharma, Viney - In: Journal of Developing Societies 25 (2009) 4, pp. 421-455
This study provides additional insights into the nature of variations in heights of adult Indian women based on the … demographic and health survey data for the year 2005–06. Though contiguous regions show similar mean heights, the gap between … caste affiliations are some of the key variables that explain the gaps in mean heights, better educational attainment …
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Variations in Women’s Heights across Social and Religious Groups Among Indian States
Viswanathan, Brinda - In: Social Indicators Research 119 (2014) 2, pp. 1149-1169
substantial variations across Indian states. Compared to Hindu women, differences in mean heights are lower across wealth … quintiles and levels of educational attainment among Muslim women. Child birth during teens affects the final heights attained …
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On the road to industrialization: nutritional status in Saxony, 1690–1850
Cinnirella, Francesco - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 2 (2008) 3, pp. 229-257
the eighteenth century was relatively high and heights fluctuated mainly because of wars. From the 1770s the average …
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The biological standard of living and mortality in Central Italy at the beginning of the 19th century
Coppola, Michela - In: Economics and human biology 11 (2013) 4, pp. 453-464
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388247
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La semilla de la abundancia y la miseria. Niveles de vida peruanos desde los inicios del periodo republicano hasta el fin de la era del guano (1820-1880)
Twrdek, Linda; Manzel, Kerstin - In: Revista Economía 36 (2013) 71, pp. 151-180
Este artículo escudriña el desarrollo de las estaturas en el Perú que va desde los inicios del periodo republicano hasta el fin de la era del guano (1820-1880). Estudiando las estaturas de los prisioneros de una penitenciaria de Lima, encontramos que las estaturas de los prisioneros de clases...
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A Three-Decade “Kuhnian” History of the Antebellum Puzzle: Explaining the shrinking of the US population at the onset of modern economic growth
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In 1979, when anthropometric history was still in its infancy, Robert Fogel and collaborators reported that the height of the US male white population began to decline quite unexpectedly around the birth cohorts of 1830. This was quite a conundrum on account of the fact that according to...
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Indonesian regional welfare development, 1900–1990: New anthropometric evidence
Foldvari, Peter; van Leeuwen, Bas; Marks, Daan; Gall, Jozsef - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 1, pp. 78-89
The study of heights provides a promising approach to a better understanding of the biological welfare of countries and …
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The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order: British children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2008
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita … positively influences the heights of children but, even after accounting for this, the number of children in the family still has …
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The Decline in the Nutritional Status of the U.S. Antebellum Population at the Onset of Modern Economic Growth
A'Hearn, Brian; Komlos, John - 2015
, Bodenhorn, Guinnane, and Mroz question this consensus view, suggesting that a decline in heights in a military sample may not be … earnings. This should have led to an increase in military heights if the logic of their model were accurate, when in fact they …
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