全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Health, Height and Welfare: Britain 1700-1980

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/h0087
来源ID	Historical Working Paper 0087
	Health, Height and Welfare: Britain 1700-1980
	Roderick Floud; Bernard Harris
发表日期	1996-05-01
出版年	1996
语种	英语
摘要	This paper reviews the evidence regarding the main trends in the height of the British population since the early eighteenth century. We argue that the average heights of successive birth cohorts of British males increased slowly between the middle of the eighteenth century and the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Average heights fell during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, before rising from the 1850s onwards. This analysis is supported by an examination of the main trends in children's heights during the twentieth century. Our findings are compared with the results of an alternative method of measuring human welfare - a modified version of the United Nations' Human Development Index. The main trends in human development reinforce the conclusions drawn from our own interpretation of the anthropometric evidence.
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/h0087
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/563026
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Roderick Floud,Bernard Harris. Health, Height and Welfare: Britain 1700-1980. 1996.