Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5057457 | Economics & Human Biology | 2006 | 25 Pages |
Abstract
Anthropometric evidence is used to shed light on the living standards in early communist Czechoslovakia (1946-1966). Height and weight variation of adolescent boys exhibit a pattern that is inconsistent with that for a normal healthy population. The hypothesis is proposed that this pattern arose from periodic food supply shortages, most marked in the spring of each year. The boys in the sample display a remarkably slow growth during the spring but catch up over the summer.
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Authors
Tomas Cvrcek,