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Received wisdom versus reality: height, nutrition, and urbanization in mid-nineteenth-century France

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Heyberger, Laurent
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Since the pioneering study of Le Roy Ladurie and his team, the idea that mean height can be considered as a reliable indicator of the standard of living has emerged from a long debate among historians and economists. Considering height in this respect, nineteenth-century France, unlike most Western countries, did not pay an urban penalty. Thanks to a substantial set of individual data (105,324 observations), based on the draft lottery of Frenchmen born in the year 1848, we are able to prove that this “French exception” did not, in fact, exist. The larger the town, the shorter were the conscripts. Among the towns, Paris had the shortest conscripts. By combining individual data with the agricultural survey of 1852, we are able to identify those factors that compensated for this urban penalty—that were positively correlated with height: nutritional availability, the literacy rate, and life expectancy.
Starting Page	115
Ending Page	140
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18632505
Journal	Cliometrica
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18632513
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2013-05-09
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Height France Urbanisation Nutrition Anthropometrics Biological standard of living Economic Theory History Econometrics Methodology and the History of Economic Thought
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History Economics and Econometrics

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