Morning
Theme: Welfare effects of economic growth
9.00 Registration
9.30-10.15 Joerg Baten (University of Tübingen)
New anthropometric research on inequality during economic development
Background material: Moradi & Baten;
Baten & Fraunholz
10.15-11.00 Bernard Harris (University of Southampton)
Public health, nutrition and the decline of mortality: the McKeown thesis revisited
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.15 Yves Seegers (KU Leuven)
Economic growth and living standards. Consumer expenditure and food consumption in Belgium, 1800-1913
12.15-13.00 Ewout Frankema (University of Groningen)
Durable inequality in 20th century Latin America: the impact of initial
asset distribution on educational investment behaviour
13.00-14.00 Lunch
Afternoon
Theme: Standard of living
14.00-14.45 Nikola Koepke (University of Tübingen)
The biological standard of living in Europe during the last two milennia
14.45-15.30 Richard Paping (University of Groningen)
The consequences of the potato disease in the Netherlands 1845-1860: a regional approach
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.45 Hans de Beer (Paediatric Association of The Netherlands)
Food consumption and male and female physical stature in the Netherlands during the 19th century
16.45-17.30 Tomek Katzur (University of Groningen)
On the efficiency of estimators in truncated height samples
17.30-18.15 Drinks
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