A Malthusian Episode Revisited: The Height of British and Irish Servants in Colonial America

John Komlos

Articles by John Komlos from Department of Economics, University of Munich

Abstract: Examines the height of runaway indentured and convict servants in Colonial America. Finds that heights decreased substantially at the middle of the 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.

Keywords: height; Industrial Revolution; Malthusian trap; Colonial America; 18th century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 N31 N33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Published in Economic History Review, 1993, 46, 768-782

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