Military Technology and Sample Selection Bias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11203443 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johan Fourie (0000-0002-7341-017X, Stellenbosch University, corresponding author), Kris Inwood (0000-0002-3533-7047, University of Guelph), Martine Mariotti (0000-0002-0065-9484, Australian National University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 485-500 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/ssh.2020.16 |
| OpenAlex | W2895650968 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 25 |
Military enlistment is highly selective for reasons of both labor demand and supply. An early-twentieth-century evolution of military technology that shifted the demand for workers of different stature illustrates the importance of labor demand beyond the commonly discussed influences originating with labor supply. English-born soldiers in the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) were taller, on average, than those of World War I (1914–18), yet these differences cannot be attributed to standard of living or business cycle influences on the labor market. Rather, we argue, the mechanization and bureaucratization of warfare increased the relative value of shorter people permitting a decline in the average height of soldiers. Technological change over the period of these two wars affected labor demand in a way that must be recognized before using this evidence to test hypotheses about changes in population health
Bureaucracy · Business cycle · Demographic economics · Economics · Labour economics · Labour supply · Macroeconomics · Political science · Politics · Robustness (evolution · Sample (material · Selection bias · Supply and demand · Agricultural risk and resilience · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |