Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality
Carles Boix|Frances McCall Rosenbluth
A growing literature in politics and economics employs measures of the height health condition human beings to gauge level well-being income across societies over time. We use both archeological data skeletal remains actual records heights (collected by armies, anthropologists) measure degree variance distribution heights, therefore, inequality since prehistoric times. find that type economy political institutions strongly covary with our inequality.
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