Baten, Jorg; Crayen, Dorothee; Voth, Hans-Joachim - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) July, pp. 418-430
Using census-based data on the ability to recall one's age, we show that low levels of nutrition impaired numeracy in industrializing England, 1780 to 1850: cognitive ability declined among those born during the Napoleonic wars. The effect was stronger in areas where grain was expensive and...