Height and Economic Development in Italy, 1730-1980

13 Pages Posted: 1 Apr 2008 Last revised: 25 May 2008

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Franco Peracchi

University of Rome Tor Vergata - Department of Economics and Finance; Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)

Date Written: January 2008

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?

Keywords: Human height, economic development, Italy

JEL Classification: J11, N33

Suggested Citation

Peracchi, Franco, Height and Economic Development in Italy, 1730-1980 (January 2008). CEIS Research Paper No. 108, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1113384 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1113384

Franco Peracchi (Contact Author)

University of Rome Tor Vergata - Department of Economics and Finance ( email )

Via di Tor Vergata
Rome, Lazio 00133
Italy

Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) ( email )

Via Due Macelli, 73
Rome, 00187
Italy

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