| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP10675
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| DP10675 Stature and Sibship: Historical Evidence |
| Timothy Hatton
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| 发表日期 | 2015-06-28
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| 出版年 | 2015
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper examines historical evidence for a quality-quantity trade-off between sibship size and height as an indicator of health. The existing literature has focused more on education than on health and has it produced mixed results. Historical evidence is limited by the lack of household level data with which to link an individual?s height with his or her childhood circumstances. Nevertheless a few recent studies have shed light in this issue. Evidence for children in interwar Britain and for soldiers born in the 1890s who enlisted in the British army at the time of WW1 is reviewed in detail. Both studies support the idea of a significant trade-off, partly due to income dilution and partly because, in these settings, large families were a conduit for infection. Evidence from country-level time series is consistent with this view. The fertility decline that began in the late nineteenth century made a modest but nevertheless important contribution to the overall increase in heights during the following century. |
| 主题 | Economic History
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| 关键词 | Height
Historical evidence
Quality-quantity tradeoff
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10675
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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/539507
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Timothy Hatton. DP10675 Stature and Sibship: Historical Evidence. 2015.
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