The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America

John Komlos

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

Abstract: Examines the height and weight of West Point Cadets in the 19th Century and finds that their height was declining in the Antebellum Period. Confirms earlier findings based on Union Army soldiers. Finds also that the cadets were quite underweight by modern standards.

Keywords: height; weight; dietary change; Antebellum period; America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 N31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Published in Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, 897-927

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