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The Transformation of Hunger Revisited: Estimating Available Calories from the Budgets of Late Nineteenth-Century British Households

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  • Gazeley, Ian
  • Newell, Andrew
  • Bezabih, Mintewab

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Levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late nineteenth century have been much debated. Trevon Logan (2006, 2009) estimated a very low average level of available calories. This paper re-examines the data and finds average levels of available calories much more in line with existing studies, more in line with what is known about energy requirements, and more in line with other aspects of the data. In sum, British households were likely to have been significantly better fed than Logan reports.

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  • Gazeley, Ian & Newell, Andrew & Bezabih, Mintewab, 2015. "The Transformation of Hunger Revisited: Estimating Available Calories from the Budgets of Late Nineteenth-Century British Households," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 75(2), pages 512-525, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:75:y:2015:i:02:p:512-525_00
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    1. Francisco J. Medina‐Albaladejo & Salvador Calatayud, 2020. "Unequal access to food during the nutritional transition: evidence from Mediterranean Spain," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 73(4), pages 1023-1049, November.
    2. Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo & Salvador Calatayud, 2021. "Children’s Diet during the Early Stages of the Nutritional Transition. The Foundlings in the Hospital of Valencia (Spain), 1852–1931," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(22), pages 1-15, November.
    3. Ian Gazeley & Rose Holmes & Andrew Newell & Kevin Reynolds & Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos, 2023. "Escaping from hunger before WW1: the nutritional transition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 17(3), pages 533-565, September.
    4. Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell & Kevin Reynolds & Hector Rufrancos, 2022. "How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 75(1), pages 80-110, February.
    5. Neil Chalmers & Stacia Stetkiewicz & Padhmanand Sudhakar & Hibbah Osei-Kwasi & Christian J Reynolds, 2019. "Impacts of Reducing UK Beef Consumption Using a Revised Sustainable Diets Framework," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-20, December.
    6. Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo & Salvador Calatayud, 2019. "Inequality during the nutritional transition: Hospital diets in Mediterranean Spain (Valencia, 1853-1923)," Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE) 1909, Asociación Española de Historia Económica.

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