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The biological standard of living in urban Bolivia, 1880s-1920s : stagnation and persistent inequality
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Peres-Cajías, José; … - 2019 - This version: June 2019
the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19 …-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's growing economic importance and modernization, average heights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023746
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The biological standard of living in urban Bolivia, 1880s-1920s: stagnation and persistent inequality
Branisa Caballero, Boris Sergio; Peres-Cajías, José; … - 2019
the evolution of average heights in urban Bolivia for the decades 1880s-1920s. The analysis focuses on men aged 19 …-50 years registered in the city of La Paz. Despite city's growing economic importance and modernization, average heights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028520
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Social mobility in the early middle ages
Meinzer, Nicholas J. - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 64 (2017), pp. 111-120
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742119
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Selection and historical height data : evidence from the 1892 Boas sample of the Cherokee Nation
Miller, Melinda - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 61 (2016), pp. 119-123
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637938
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Problems of Sample-selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature: A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy W.; Mroz, Thomas A. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in … the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear … as crucial components in development economics and related fields. The historical heights literature often relies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908076
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The Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Heights
Akachi, Yoko; Canning, David - 2008
infant mortality and rising adult heights. In Sub-Saharan Africa we see a different pattern. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200868
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Sons of St. Patrick: Quality of Life and Heights of Young Irish Males at Mid-Nineteenth Century
Jordan, Thomas - In: Social Indicators Research 102 (2011) 3, pp. 389-408
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009400595
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492936
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Health insurance and height inequality : evidence from European health insurance expansions
Baten, Jörg; Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; … - In: Socio-economic planning sciences : the international … 93 (2024), pp. 1-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551812
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Gender inequality in a transition economy : heights and sexual height dimorphism in Southwestern France, 1640-1850
Ridolfi, Leonardo - In: Cliometrica : journal of historical economics and … 18 (2024) 1, pp. 37-102
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448185