War, food rationing, and socioeconomic inequality in Germany during the First World War.
Germany experienced a devastating period during the First World War due to severely restricted import possibilities and a general shortage of foodstuffs. This study uses the heights of some 4,000 individuals who served during the Second World War to quantify biological living standards from the 1900...
| Publicado en: | Economic History Review Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 1063 - 1084 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2013
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