TY - JOUR
T1 - Heights, calories and welfare
T2 - A new perspective on Italian industrialization, 1854-1913
AU - Federico, Giovanni
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - The height of Italian conscripts was increasing throughout the second half of the 19th century due primarily to an increases in food intake, but also to an improvement in sanitary conditions, and diffusion of primary schooling. The increase in food intake reflects a growth in agricultural production, contrary to the standard series of national accounts. We infer from an improved estimate of agricultural output, and from the increases in physical stature that the timing of the onset of modern economic growth in Italy was substantially different from the conventional Gerschenkronian perspective.
AB - The height of Italian conscripts was increasing throughout the second half of the 19th century due primarily to an increases in food intake, but also to an improvement in sanitary conditions, and diffusion of primary schooling. The increase in food intake reflects a growth in agricultural production, contrary to the standard series of national accounts. We infer from an improved estimate of agricultural output, and from the increases in physical stature that the timing of the onset of modern economic growth in Italy was substantially different from the conventional Gerschenkronian perspective.
KW - Agricultural production
KW - Biological living standards
KW - Italy
KW - Physical stature
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U2 - 10.1016/S1570-677X(03)00071-6
DO - 10.1016/S1570-677X(03)00071-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 15463980
AN - SCOPUS:6944244000
SN - 1570-677X
VL - 1
SP - 289
EP - 308
JO - Economics and Human Biology
JF - Economics and Human Biology
IS - 3
ER -