| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP8490
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| DP8490 How have Europeans Grown so Tall? |
| Timothy Hatton
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| 发表日期 | 2011-07-01
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| 出版年 | 2011
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Increases in human stature are seen as a key indicator of improvement in the average health of populations. The literature associates stature with a variety of socioeconomic variables, and much of the focus is on the nineteenth century and on the last 50 years. In this paper I present and analyse a new dataset for the average height of adult male cohorts, from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980, in fifteen European countries. In little more than a century average height increased by 11cm--representing a dramatic improvement in health. Interestingly, there was a distinct acceleration in the period spanning the two World Wars and the Great Depression. I examine the influence of socioeconomic variables on height through the two key channels: nutrition and the disease environment. The evidence suggests that the most important single cause of increasing height was the improving disease environment as reflected by the fall in infant mortality. Rising income and education and falling family size had more modest effects. Improvements in health care are hard to identify and the effects of the welfare state spending seem to have been small. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics
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| 关键词 | Health
Human stature
Twentieth century europe
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8490
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537327
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Timothy Hatton. DP8490 How have Europeans Grown so Tall?. 2011.
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