The making of giants in a welfare state: the Norwegian experience in the 20th century

Sunder, Marco

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“…3 There is much concern about the obesity epidemic in the US, because of its health consequences (Gordon-Larsen, Adair, and Popkin, 2003,) (Cuff 1993). In contrast, Americans are now considerably shorter than Western and Northern Europeans, and the Dutch, Swedes, and Norwegians are the tallest, -though Danes, British, Germans, and even the East-Germans are also taller 5 (Fredriks, 2000;Sunder 2003) ( Figures 1 and 2). They are as much as 2-6 cm taller than Americans, and the gap is probably slightly greater among females.…”

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From the tallest to (one of) the fattest: the enigmatic fate of the American population in the 20th century

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Baur

2004

Economics & Human Biology

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Within the course of the 20th century the American population went through a metamorphosis from being the tallest in the world, to being among the most overweight. The American height advantage over Western and Northern Europeans was between 3 and 9 cm in the middle of the 19 th century. Americans were also underweight. However, today, the exact opposite is the case as the Dutch, Swedes, and Norwegians are the tallest, and the Danes, British and Germans -even the East-Germans -are also taller, towering over the Americans by as much as 3-7 cm. Americans also live shorter. The hypothesis is worth considering that this adverse development is related to the greater social inequality, an inferior health-care system, and fewer social safety nets in the United States than in Western and NorthernEurope, in spite of higher per capita income. The West-and Northern European welfare states, with cradle to grave health and unemployment insurance currently provide a more propitious environment for the biological standard of living than its US counterpart.Word Count of Abstract: 168

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From the tallest to (one of) the fattest: the enigmatic fate of the American population in the 20th century

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Baur

2004

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“…8 Another source of information on income inequality in the 19th century comes from a method based on evidence of the footprint of income inequality on the human body. Baten ( , 1999, Pradhan et al (2003), Moradi and Baten (2005), Sunder (2003) and have argued that the variance in height across individuals within a country (as measured by the coefficient of variation) can be used as a proxy for income distribution.…”

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How Was Life?

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2014

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“…The correlation has been confirmed in further analyses, for example by Pradhan et al (2003), Moradi and Baten (2005) and van . This method has been widely used in the economic history literature (Sunder, 2003;Guntupalli and Baten, 2006). The idea is that heights reflect nutritional conditions during early childhood and youth.…”

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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?

Stolz

Baten

2012

Explorations in Economic History

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The making of giants in a welfare state: the Norwegian experience in the 20th century

Cited by 37 publications

References 10 publications

From the tallest to (one of) the fattest: the enigmatic fate of the American population in the 20th century

From the tallest to (one of) the fattest: the enigmatic fate of the American population in the 20th century

How Was Life?

Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?

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