Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Anthropometric Research and the Development of Social Science History

By Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München. 2003

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• Growing Tall but Unequal: New Findings and New Background Evidence on Anthropometric Welfare in 156 Countries, 1810–1989 (2012, methodology): “The well-known Maddison data set (2001), for example, provides only rough estimates for many such countries prior to 1910. While height is not without its deficiencies as a measure of the standard of living of a given population, it generates insights into global changes, and is particularly valuabl”