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 …

抄録< jats: p> In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a
new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe …

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives
than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists …

New estimates of nominal earnings and the cost of living are presented and used to make a
fresh assessment of changes in the real earnings of male and female manual workers in …

The interest generated by the anthropometric research program since the pioneering
publications of the late 1970s has been predicated to a considerable degree on the …

The paper reviews the macroeconomic data describing the British economy from 1760 to
1913 and shows that it passed through a two stage evolution of inequality. In the first half of …

This article provides empirically based estimates for life expectancy at birth in the largest
British cities in the nineteenth century. This evidence reflects the experience of women and …

This article responds to H umphries's critique of Allen's assessment of the high wage
economy of eighteenth‐century B ritain and its importance for explaining the industrial …

Within the course of the 20th century the American population went through a virtual
metamorphosis from being the tallest in the world, to being among the most overweight. The …

We analyze heights of men and women who were imprisoned in 19th-century Bavaria.
Heights were not significantly correlated by sex over time. Both men and women grew taller …