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Growing Incomes, Growing People In Nineteenth-Century Tasmania
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posted on 2023-05-18, 11:55 authored by Inwood, K, Hamish Maxwell-StewartHamish Maxwell-Stewart, Oxley, D, Jim StankovichThe earliest measures of well-being for Europeans born in the Pacific region are heights and wages in Tasmania. 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 Tasmanian 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.
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Publication title
Australian Economic History ReviewVolume
55Pagination
187-211ISSN
0004-8992Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing AsiaPlace of publication
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