Ladies first: Female and male adult height in Switzerland, 1770–1930

Nikola Koepke, Joël Floris, Christian Pfister, Frank J. Rühli and Kaspar Staub

Economics & Human Biology, 2018, vol. 29, issue C, 76-87

Abstract: When investigating the well-being of a society, the living conditions of females are of special importance, not only due to the immediate impact for those directly involved, but also because of the potential intergenerational effects. Studying the dimorphism in the mean height helps to depict variation in the basic biological sex difference due to gender-related factors that potentially determine net nutrition.

Keywords: Net nutritional status; Height dimorphism; Gender aspects; SES differences; Switzerland; 19th century (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 I31 J16 N3 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2018.02.002

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