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A Tale of Two Armies: Comparative Growth in the Mirror of the F irst W orld W ar
Author(s) -
Cranfield John,
Inwood Kris
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
australian economic history review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.493
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1467-8446
pISSN - 0004-8992
DOI - 10.1111/aehr.12069
Subject(s) - short stature , inequality , demographic economics , interpretation (philosophy) , economics , demography , medicine , sociology , endocrinology , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis , linguistics
Soldiers born during the late nineteenth century were taller in A ustralia than in C anada. A widening of the gap for those born in the 1890s supports the more optimistic interpretation of A ustralia's 1890s depression and is consistent with the ‘hazardous growth’ hypothesis of an inverse relationship between economic change and public health. The rural–urban stature gradient was steeper in A ustralia although C anada had greater stature inequality in all other dimensions. Native‐born soldiers were taller than the B ritish‐born in both countries. We see no evidence of selective migration effects that would imply feedback from stature to growth.