Hatton, Timothy J.; Bray, Bernice E. - In: Economics & Human Biology 8 (2010) 3, pp. 405-413
This paper presents 5-yearly data on the height of young adult men in 15 Western European countries for birth cohorts from the middle of the 19th to the end of the 20th century. The results indicate that from the 1870s to the 1970s average height increased by around 11Â cm, or more than...