Autarchy, Market Disintegration, and Health: The Mortality and Nutritional Crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937

Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea

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“…The mean height of humans is a historical record of their net-nutritional experience (Komlos, 1995). Because human-growth status is the cumulative result of the quantity and quality of food consumed less the work load and the energy required to fight diseases, stature can be understood as an indicator of the biological standard of living (Baten and Wagner, 2003;Komlos and Kriwy, 2003;Moradi, 2010;Steckel, 2009). Most studies of the biological standard of living in Korea have focused on the twentieth century.…”

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The biological standard of living in pre-modern Korea: Determinants of height of militia recruits during the Chosŏn dynasty

Jun

Lewis

Schwekendiek

2017

Economics & Human Biology

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This paper extends the research on the biological standard of living in the Korean peninsula back to pre-modern times. Drawing on militia rosters of the Chosŏn Dynasty from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, we tentatively conclude that the final height of Korean men during this period was 166cm and thus slightly above that of modern North Korean men (165cm). On the other hand, the average height of modern South Korean men is 172cm, 6cm more than what we tentatively estimate for pre-modern Korean men. Regression analysis of the height of pre-modern Korean men finds that un-free Koreans ("slaves") were significantly shorter by about 0.6-0.7cm than commoners, whereas the average height of recruits suffering from smallpox did not differ significantly from that of other recruits. Moreover, regional, as opposed to birth-dummy, variables account, and to a significant degree, for most of the differences in height. Whether or not this is a result of socioeconomic differences across provinces or a result of other regionally-varying factors remains an open question.

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