Anthropologie du conscrit français, d'après les comptes numériques et sommaires du recrutement de l'armée (1819-1826)

Long-Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in Nineteenth-Century France

“…The nation-level aggregate data on French military conscripts have been used previously (see Aron, Dumont, & Le Roy Ladurie, 1972;Van Meerten, 1990;Weir, 1993Weir, , 1997and Heyberger, 2005). However, this paper is the first to assemble and exploit the data on mean height and proportion of those stunted for all departments and every year between 1872 and 1912.…”

The Heights of Europeans Since 1750: A New Source For European Economic History

“…(Aron et al 1972) By growth reflects not only the input of nutrients in the form of food and drink, but also the demands which the growing child and adolescent places on his body. Nutrition is required for body xnaintenace, for work or other physical activity and for growth; if the nutrition is inadequate to sustain the body in a healthy state, or if the demands of work are excessive, growth will be retarded or, in the extreme case, will cease al-together.…”

Factory discipline, health and externalities in the reduction of working time in nineteenth century France

“…There is a tradition of research, which uses height and army exemption rates, rather than economic variables such as GNP per capita, to assess health aspects of human welfare (Aron et al, 1972;Floud et al, 1990;Steckel and Floud, 1997). These studies of human growth, called auxological epidemiology, began in the 1820s in France with Villermé's (1829) analysis of the heights of soldiers and continued in England, with the physician Edwin Chadwick's (1842) Report on the Sanitary Condition of Labouring Population in Great Britain.…”