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"Tall and lithe" - the wage-height premium in the Victorian and Edwardian British railway industry

Anderson, Peter - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 67 (2018), pp. 152-162

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The heights of French-Canadian, Irish, Scottish and English populations in Quebec, 1813 to 1847

Morin, Alex Arsenault; Geloso, Vincent; Kufenko, Vadim - 2016

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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

Based on almost 5.000 direct observations on National Identification Cards, this paper offers the first estimation of 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...

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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

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Social differentials in the biological standard of living during the decline of industrialization in Andalusia : a district-level analysis in Antequera

Martínez Carrión, José-Miguel; Cámara, Antonio D. - 2015

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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 … were offered, not until 1987 was the comprehensive solution to the puzzle offered that the height decline was due primarily …

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Anthropometric evidence on economic growth, biological well-being and regional convergence in the Habsburg Monarchy, c. 1850–1910

Komlos, John - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 1 (2007) 3, pp. 211-237

We examine secular trends in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1850–1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of recruits disaggregated at the regional level. We find that heights stagnated generally among the 1850s birth cohorts. The secular increase in heights...

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Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Anthropometric Research and the Development of Social Science History

Komlos, John; Baten, Jörg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

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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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Spatial Convergence in Height in Central Europe, 1890-1910

Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 1, pp. 90-112

the population in 1890, the faster its height grew thereafter. Hence, there was convergence in physical stature between … today’s Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary). The difference in trends between the trend in height in the Polish District …

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