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Examines the height of German youth in the late eighteenth century, and documents the very large differences in height … between the lower and upper classes. Shows that the height of the upper class did not decline at the end of the 18th century …
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Examines the height of runaway indentured and convict servants in Colonial America. Finds that heights decreased …
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This paper reviews recent literature using stature and weight as measures of human welfare with a particular interest in cliometric or historical research. We begin with an overview of anthropometric evidence of living standards and the new but fast-growing field of anthropometric history. This...
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This paper examines the urban-rural differences of the height during the early stages of modern economic growth and … and villages, in the rural and urban areas. We use height data of military recruitment records between 1857 and 1936, that … penalty in rural areas than in cities, and that the height deteriorated in the most industrialized cities due to unhealthy …
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Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age. …
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Examines the height of students who attended The Citadel, the military academy in Charleston in the late-19th and the …
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Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age. …
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We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...
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Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
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This paper provides new series of building wages for 18th-century Madrid. At an international level, the usual point of reference for Spain during the 18th century is the wage series that Earl Hamilton compiled (and Robert Allen included in his database) using the payrolls from the construction...
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