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

John Komlos

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

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: heights; biological standard of living; United Kingdom; Industrial Revolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 N33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Published in Economic History Review, 1993, 46, 115-144

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