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Anthropometric within-country Inequality and the Estimation of Skill Premia with Anthropometric Indicators
Blum, Matthias; Baten, Jörg - In: Review of Economics 62 (2011) 2, pp. 107-138
We provide a literature review of anthropometric studies of within-country inequality. Then we discuss the relationship between skill premia and inequality indicators based on height variation. Skill premia describe the wage gap between an unskilled and a skilled building worker, while height...
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Global height trends and the determinants of anthropometric welfare, 1810s - 1980s
Baten, Jörg; Blum, Matthias - 2010
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Why are you tall while others are short? : agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights
Baten, Jörg; Blum, Matthias - In: European review of economic history 18 (2014) 2, pp. 144-165
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Growing tall but unequal : new findings and new background evidence on anthropometric welfare in 156 countries, 1810 - 1989
Baten, Jörg; Blum, Matthias - In: Economic history of developing regions 27 (2012), pp. 66-85
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Anthropometric within-country inequality and the estimation of skill premia with anthropometric indicators
Blum, Matthias; Baten, Jörg - In: Review of economics 62 (2011) 2, pp. 107-138
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Inequality and heights
Blum, Matthias - In: The Oxford handbook of economics and human biology, (pp. 179-191). 2016
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Weltmarktintegration, Wachstum und Innovationsverhalten in Schwellenländern : eine theoretische Diskussion mit einer Fallstudie über "Argentinien 1990-1999"
Blum, Matthias - 2003
Forschung & Entwicklung und Innovationen sind die Grundlage des modernen wirtschaftlichen Wachstums. Über den Außenhandel können Schwellenländer einerseits von Innovationen anderer Länder profitieren, andererseits besitzen sie aber in der Forschungstätigkeit selbst einen komparativen...
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Government decisions before and during the First World War and the living standards in Germany during a drastic natural experiment
Blum, Matthias - In: Explorations in economic history : EEH 48 (2011) 4, pp. 556-567
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Der deutsche Lebensstandard während des Ersten Weltkrieges in historischer Perspektive : welche Rolle spielten Konsumentenpräferenzen?
Blum, Matthias - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 100 (2013) 3, pp. 273-291
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