North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16 … discovered, while the English rich were the tallest in their time: only 2.5 cm shorter than today's US standards. Height of the … the height of the wealthy tended rather to increase until the 1840s and then levelled off. …

The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, accounting was …

population in 1890 the faster its height grew thereafter. Hence, there was convergence in physical stature between the peripheral …, Czech Republic, and Hungary). The difference between the trend in the height of the Polish district of Przemysl and the …

are studied based on the coefficient of variation, height percentiles and socioeconomic categories (students, literate non-students … male height data (N=358,253), the secular trend of biological well-being and intergenerational anthropometric inequalities … cohorts of the 1920s. From the 1930s there was a cycle of sustained increase in height. Despite nutritional improvement, the …