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The Secular Trend in the Biological Standard of Living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860

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John Komlos () (The Institute of Economic History, Department of Economics, University of Munich)

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Corrects some of the statistical mistakes of previous studies of the trend in the height of British soldiers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Finds that heights decreased substantially in the late-18th century in keeping with many other findings. The inference is that an incipient Malthusian crisis was threatening the United Kingdom, as it did Continental Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, University of Munich in its series Articles by John Komlos with number 19.

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Publication status: published in Economic History Review, 1993, 46, 115-144
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Keywords: heights; biological standard of living; United Kingdom; Industrial Revolution;

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I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Production
N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income, and Wealth - - - Europe: Pre-1913

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  1. Komlos, John, 2003. "How to (and How Not to) Analyze Deficient Height Samples," Discussion Papers in Economics 56, University of Munich, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  2. Lee A. Craig & Thomas Weiss, 1997. "Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States," NBER Historical Working Papers 0099, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Robert Allen, 2007. "Engel's Pause: A Pessimist's GUide to the British Industrial Revolution," Economics Series Working Papers 315, University of Oxford, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  4. Roderick Floud & Bernard Harris, 1996. "Health, Height and Welfare: Britain 1700-1980," NBER Historical Working Papers 0087, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  5. A'Hearn, Brian & Komlos, John, 2003. "Improvements in Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Truncated Normal Samples with Prior Knowledge of σ," Discussion Papers in Economics 51, University of Munich, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  6. John Komlos, . "On the Biological Standard of Living of Eighteenth-Century Americans: Taller, Richer, Healthier," Articles by John Komlos 3, Department of Economics, University of Munich. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Komlos, John & Cinnirella, Francesco, 2005. "European Heights in the Early 18th Century," Discussion Papers in Economics 572, University of Munich, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  8. Robert Allen, 2007. "Pessimism Preserved: Real Wages in the British Industrial Revolution," Economics Series Working Papers 314, University of Oxford, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  9. Yoko Akachi & David Canning, 2008. "The Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Heights," PGDA Working Papers 3308, Program on the Global Demography of Aging. [Downloadable!]
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