Boom, bust, and the human body: Further evidence on the relationship between height and business cycles

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 450-466

  Sunder, Marco ^a   Woitek, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anthropometric history; Business cycles; Height cycles; Spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECTROSCOPY; UNITED STATES;

BODY HEIGHT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27744490955     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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