American Economic Review Vol. 98 No. 2 2008

Height and Economic Development in Italy, 1730–1980

Franco Peracchi

Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome, Italy.

Abstract

In this paper I review evidence on the long-run relation between height and economic development in Italy. I ask three questions: What are the long-run trends of mean height and real incomes in Italy? What do we know about height dispersion? What other aspects of the distribution of height changed with economic development?

DOI

10.1257/aer.98.2.475

Volume

98

Issue

2

Pages

475-481

Language

en

Sources

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