Russian Living Standards under the Tsars
Anthropometric Evidence from the Volga
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10095841 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Boris Mironov, Б Н Миронов (0000-0001-8559-0019, St Petersburg University, corresponding author), Brian A’hearn (Franklin & Marshall College), Brian A'Hearn |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 900-929 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050708000673 |
| OpenAlex | W1980496455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 34 |
The trend in mean height in the Russian province of Saratov is estimated for birth cohorts from 1755 to 1892 on the basis of newly gathered archival data and published sources. Heights fell in the late eighteenth century due an increasing burden of taxes and feudal dues. Stature increased slowly throughout the nineteenth century, offering no support for the hypothesis of an agrarian crisis that provoked or followed from the abolition of serfdom in 1861. Improving living conditions can be attributed to economic development, rising productivity in agriculture, and diversification of peasant economic activity into other sectors
Agrarian society · Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Cartography · Demographic economics · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic history · Economics · Fell · Feudalism · Geography · Peasant · Political science · Serfdom · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Standard of living · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
The diminution of the physical stature of the English male population in the eighteenth century
Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union
Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom
The Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom
Human capital transfer of German‐speaking migrants in eastern Europe, 1780s–1820s
Spatial clustering of longevity in a Dutch province, 1812–1962
Spatial clustering of longevity in a Dutch province, 1812-1962
Moral Economy' and Peasant Revolution in Russia
The influence of inequality on the standard of living
Shrinking in a growing economy is not so puzzling after all
Globalization and the impact of the late 19th-century agrarian crisis on well-being
Trapped by Nature
The Short and the Tall
Military Technology and Sample Selection Bias
Heights and human welfare
Escape underway
Living Standards in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Health and Welfare during Industrialization
Anthropometric Standards for the Assessment of Growth and Nutritional Status
An anthropometric history of early-modern France
Determinants of Variation in Adult Body Height
Limited-dependent and qualitative variables in econometrics
A restricted maximum likelihood estimator for truncated height samples
Secular trend and regional differences in the stature of Italians, 1854–1980
Galton's midparent height revisited
Two Paths of Bourgeois Agrarian Evolution in European Russia
Khlebnye tseny v Rossii za dva stoletiia (XVIII-XIX vv)
Russian Economic History
Politics and Society in Provincial Russia
Anthropometric Evidence on Living Standards in Northern Italy, 1730–1860
Economy and Society in Rural Russia
Peasant Economy, Culture, and Politics of European Russia, 1800-1921
The Great Leap Upwards
Famine, Disease, and Mortality Patterns in the Parish of Borshevka, Russia, 1830-1912
The Crop Failure of 1891
Russian Economic History
Climate, Crops, and Natural Increase in Rural Russia, 1861-1913
On Good Numbers and Bad
The Mir and the Military Draft
Enlightened Seigniorialism and Its Dilemmas in Serf Russia, 1750-1830
The secular trend in the biological standard of living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860
The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents
Consequences of the price revolution in eighteenth-century Russia
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |