Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights
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2014
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Resumo |
We analyze the proximate determinants of the biological standard of living from a global perspective, namely high-quality nutrition and the disease environment during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Until the mid-twentieth century, the local availability of cattle, meat, and milk per capita and the local disease environment mainly determined the stature of the population – and, by implication, how long they lived and how healthy they were. During the late twentieth century, the trade of agricultural products and health-promoting technologies increased in relative importance; hence, the local availabilities became less decisive in explaining height differences. |
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application/pdf |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heu003 http://pure.qub.ac.uk/ws/files/17069271/baten_blum_wh_final_resub_EREH140116.pdf |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Direitos |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Fonte |
Baten , J & Blum , M 2014 , ' Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights ' European Review of Economic History , vol 18 , no. 2 , pp. 144-165 . DOI: 10.1093/ereh/heu003 |
Palavras-Chave | #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000 #Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all) |
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article |