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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2021

Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing

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Debate

EU and UK targets for healthy life expectancy – are they achievable?
Carol Jagger

Demography and well-being
Andrew E. Clark

WELLBYs, cost-benefit analyses and the Easterlin Discount
Paul Frijters

Review

Comparing global reports of subjective well-being to experiential measures
Richard E. Lucas

Anthropometric history and the measurement of wellbeing
Bernard Harris

Research Articles

Wellbeing Indicators and Data
Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator: inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
David E. Bloom - Victoria Y. Fan - Vadim Kufenko - Osondu Ogbuoji - Klaus Prettner - Gavin Yamey

Global improvements in Years of Good Life since 1950
Erich Striessnig - Claudia Reiter - Anna Dimitrova

Mortality evolution in Algeria: What can we learn about data quality?
Farid Flici - Nacer-Eddine Hammouda

Gender Perspectives on Life Satisfaction, Health And Wellbeing
Gender disparities in health at older ages and their consequences for well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean
Marília R. Nepomuceno - Vanessa di Lego - Cássio M. Turra

Gender and socioeconomic inequalities in health and wellbeing across age in France and Switzerland
Anna Barbuscia - Chiara Comolli

Wellbeing, Partnership Unions and The Family
The age U-shape in Europe: the protective role of partnership
Andrew E. Clark - Hippolyte d’Albis - Angela Greulich

Singles in the city: happily ever after?
Bernhard Riederer - Nina-Sophie Fritsch - Lena Seewann

Fathers’ and mothers’ enjoyment of childcare: the role of multitasking
Marina Zannella - Alessandra De Rose

Health and Wellbeing At Old Age
Well-being in Europe: decompositions by country and gender for the population aged 50+
Claudia Reiter - Sonja Spitzer

The life course and subjective well-being across generations – an analysis based on cross-national surveys (2002–2016)
Hideko Matsuo - Koen Matthijs

Education and Wellbeing
Academic track mismatch and the temporal development of well-being and competences in German secondary education
Felix Bittmann

Is educational wellbeing associated with grade repetition and school dropout rates among Indian students? Evidence from a panel study
Ronak Paul - Rashmi

Data and Trends

Years of Good Life: An illustration of a new well-being indicator using data for Thailand
Thananon Buathong - Anna Dimitrova - Paolo Miguel M. Vicerra - Montakarn Chimmamee
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Anthropometric history and the measurement of wellbeing

    Bernard Harris

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2021, pp. 91-123, 2021/06/09

Demographic Aspects of Human Wellbeing

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2021.rev02


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doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2021.rev02

Abstract

It has often been recognised that the average height of a population is influenced by the economic, social and environmental conditions in which it finds itself, and this insight has inspired a generation of historians to use anthropometric data to investigate the health and wellbeing of past populations. This paper reviews some of the main developments in the field, and assesses the extent to which height remains a viable measure of historical wellbeing. It explores a number of different issues, including the nature of human growth; the impact of variations in diet and exposure to disease; the role of ethnicity; the relationships between height, mortality and labour productivity; and the “social value” of human stature. It concludes that,despite certain caveats, height has retained its capacity to act as a “mirror” of the conditions of past societies, and of the wellbeing of their members.

Keywords: Anthropometrics; Height; Health; Wellbeing; Standard of living

Published Online: 2021/06/09

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