Nineteenth Century Body Mass, Height, and Weight: Inequality across Quantiles

Scott A. Carson

No 9135, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality’s relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller statures allow weight to be distributed over larger areas, and height is inversely related to body mass, however positively related to weight. Because weight increased with age and age inequality, the majority of net nutrition is beyond an individual’s control, and stature inequality is smaller than weight because it is genetically determined. Current net nutrition was positively related to age, however, inversely related to regional inequality. Subsequently, current and cumulative net nutrition are related to inequality and increased across BMI and weight distributions.

Keywords: body mass; stature; and weight inequality; current and cumulative net nutrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I14 I30 I32 N11 N12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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