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Trends in Korean stature, 1547-1882

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  • Myung Soo Cha

    (Yeungnam University)

  • Young-Jun Cho

    (Seoul National University)

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"We estimate stature trend in Korea from 1547 to 1882 using eleven sets of height records created by judicial and military authorities. Stature figures are given in terms of different yardsticks of unknown lengths and sometimes in round figures, making it difficult to estimate height precisely. Direction of height shift over several decades spanning different parts of the three and half centuries can be determined, however, which was either stagnant or downwards, but never upwards. Slaves had height advantage over free peasants, male adults were taller in northern than in southern provinces, and the effect of smallpox on height was ambiguous. "

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  • Myung Soo Cha & Young-Jun Cho, 2013. "Trends in Korean stature, 1547-1882," Working Papers 13003, Economic History Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehs:wpaper:13003
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    Keywords

    stature; pre-colonial Korea; conscription; postmortem;
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    JEL classification:

    • N35 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Asia including Middle East
    • N15 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Asia including Middle East

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