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Spatial Convergence in Height in East-Central Europe, 1890-1910
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, 2007.
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Abstract
- We examine spatial convergence in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1890-1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of 21-year-old recruits disaggregated into 15 districts. We find that the shorter was the population in 1890 the faster its height grew thereafter. Hence, there was convergence in physical stature between the peripheral areas of the monarchy (located in today's Poland/Ukraine, Romania, and Slovakia) and the core (located in today's Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary). The difference between the trend in the height of the Polish district of Przemysl and the Viennese trend was about 0.9 cm per decade in favor of the former. But the convergence among the core districts themselves was minimal or non-existent, whereas the convergence among the peripheral districts was more pronounced. Hence, spatial convergence took place exclusively within the peripheral areas, and between the peripheral regions and the more developed ones. The pattern is somewhat reminiscent of modern findings on convergence clubs in the global economy. However, the East-Central European pattern was the reverse of this modern finding: heights converged to the levels of the developed regions, but did not converge among the more developed regions themselves.
- Subjects :
- inequality
N13
J10
spatial convergence
anthropometric history
Gesundheit
Habsburg Monarchy
spatial convergence, inequality, physical stature, economic growth, biological standard of living, Habsburg Monarchy, anthropometric history
economic growth
Anthropologie
Regionales Wachstum
O49
ddc:330
Österreich-Ungarn
physical stature
biological standard of living
I10
N93
D63
Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....77e3c37e9086658d3527c56163689adf