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Cities, market integration, and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth-century England and Wales.
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A new source, 1840s Admiralty seamen's tickets, is used to explore three anthropometric issues. First, did being born in a city, with its associated disamenities, lead to stunting? Second, did being born near a city, whose markets sucked away foodstuffs, lead to stunting? Third, did child labour lead to stunting? We find that only those born in very large cities suffered a level of stunting that contemporaries could have observed. Being born near a city, which gave parents opportunities to tr...
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- Publisher:
- Blackwell Publishing
- Journal:
- Economic History Review
- Volume:
- 62
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 458 - 478
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0013-0117
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- English
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- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:15329
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- 2012-01-27
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