The Net Effect of Railroads on Stature in the Postbellum Period

Solakoglu, Ebru Güven

doi:10.1016/s0363-3268(06)24003-5

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“…At the local-canton-level, the positive and modest impact of the railway proves to be a statistical artifact as soon as one controls for departments of residence. In this respect, our study diverges from anthropometric studies of the history of the railway in the US, in which a different methodology was used to describe a negative (Haines 1998;Haines et al 2003) or positive (Solakoglu 2007) impact.…”

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Received wisdom versus reality: height, nutrition, and urbanization in mid-nineteenth-century France

Heyberger

2013

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“…28FL01 28 In the case of the US, the railway-line variable is analyzed at the county level (Haines 1998;Haines 28FL02 et al 2003), or in some cases that of the state (Solakoglu 2007); such a large-scale dataset increases the 28FL03 risk of ecological fallacy.…”

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Received wisdom versus reality: height, nutrition, and urbanization in mid-nineteenth-century France

Heyberger

2013

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“…As a result, foodstuffs became cheaper and more abundant in towns and cities, a circumstance that may well have helped to improve the nutrition of urban dwellers (e.g. Guven Solakoglu 2006;Yoo 2012;Zehetmayer 2013). However, railways might be detrimental to the biological living standards of the rural population.…”

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The urban–rural height gap: evidence from late nineteenth-century Catalonia

Ramón-Muñoz

Ramon-Muñoz

2023

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This paper aims to establish whether there was a gap in biological living standards between urban and rural areas in late nineteenth-century Catalonia, and if so, to determine its extent. The study makes use of a large new dataset based on military records for the cohort of males born in the year 1890 and enlisted in the year 1911. By combining individual heights with information at municipal level, we conclude that the 1890 cohort of conscripts living in rural areas were shorter than those that resided in towns and cities with populations of more than 20,000 people. We also hypothesise about the reasons why urban dwellers in late nineteenth-century Catalonia were taller than their rural counterparts by considering the potential role of rural–urban migration, improvements in public sanitation and health care, and progresses in the quantity and quality of food availability for urban dwellers.

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“…An interesting study on the Philippines assembles data for both entities (Ghuman, Behrman et al 2005). The researchers report that several household Diet and nutrition affect human growth, and the connections found by social scientists illuminate the role of mechanical refrigeration (Craig, Goodwin et al 2004); relative price changes (Logan 2006); social policy (Pelletier and Frongillo 2003); general living conditions (Silventoinen 2003); diet and work (Tadman 2000); socioeconomic conditions associated with ethnicity (Brennan, McDonald et al 1995;Dye 1995) ; parental consumption decisions (Schneider 1996); the interaction of diet and disease (Alter 2004); political disruption (Costa-Font and Gil 2008;Morgan 2009); and railroads (Solakoglu 2007). Although democratic socialist countries devote considerable resources to human welfare programs, a modest height gradient often persists (Turrell 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%