Growing Incomes, Growing People in Nineteenth‐Century T asmania

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20437488
AutoresKris Inwood (0000-0002-3533-7047, University of Guelph, autor correspondente), Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (0000-0001-7336-0953, University of Tasmania), Hamish Maxwell‐Stewart (University of Tasmania), Deborah Oxley (0000-0001-6871-143X, University of Oxford), Jim Stankovich (0000-0001-9344-7749, University of Tasmania)
Ano2015
Volume55
Fascículo2
Páginas187-211
Data de publicação2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Economic History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0004-8992 • E-ISSN: 1467-8446
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aehr.12071
OpenAlexW1604373974
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas36

The earliest measures of well‐being for E uropeans born in the P acific region are heights and wages in T asmania. Evidence of rising stature in middle decades of the nineteenth century survives multiple checks for measurement, compositional, and selection bias. The challenge to health and stature seen in other settler societies (the ‘antebellum paradox’) is not visible here. We sketch an interpretation for the simultaneous rise of T asmanian stature and per capita gross domestic product based on relatively slow population growth and urbanisation, a decline in food cost per family member available from a worker's wage, and early recognition of the importance of public health

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Gross domestic product · Interpretation (philosophy) · Labour economics · Per capita · Population · Product (mathematics) · Sociology · Standard of living · Urbanization · Wage · Australian History and Society · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · New Zealand Economic and Social Studies