Nutrition and Economic Development in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina: an Anthropometric Approach

Examines the height of students who attended The Citadel, the military academy in Charleston in the late-19th and the first half of the 20th century. Shows a long stagnation in the biological standard of living in this part of the South until the 1910s, when it began to increase substantially.

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Authors:	Komlos, John ; Coclanis, Peter
Institutions:	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Subject:	height \| nutrition \| biological standard of living

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Series:	Articles by John Komlos.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Data has been deposited in ICPSR data archive, no. 03391. published in Social Science History, 1995, 19, 91-116
Classification:	N31 - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913 ; N33 - Europe: Pre-1913 ; I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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