| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w14536
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 14536
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| Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions |
| Richard H. Steckel
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| 发表日期 | 2008-12-05
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| 出版年 | 2008
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences, which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977-1994. The expansion occurred in several areas, but especially within economics, indicating that heights are now widely accepted as a useful measure of human welfare. Much of this new work extends beyond the traditional bailiwick of anthropometric history, including biological welfare during economic and political crises; anthropometric influences on wages; the welfare of women relative to men in the contemporary world; the fetal origins hypothesis; and inequality in the developing world. The approach has also expanded within economic history to consider the consequences of empire for colonials; the health of populations lacking traditional measures of social performance; the consequences of smallpox; and very long-term trends in health. Much has also been learned about socioeconomic aspects of inequality, the welfare implications of industrialization, and socioeconomic determinants of stature. The last is a work in progress and one may doubt whether sufficient longitudinal evidence will become available for a complete understanding of the variety and strength of pathways that affect human physical growth. |
| 主题 | History
; Development and Growth
; Development
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14536
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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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/572209
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