Stature and relative deprivation: Fatherless children in early industrial Britain.

Economic historians and development economists have exploited links between nutrition, health status and physical stature to argue that evidence about height can be used to supplement conventional economic indices of well-being. Evidence on stature may be available for time periods when conventional...

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Main Authors: Horrell, S, Humphries, J, Voth, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 1998