Birth Weight and Economic Growth: Women's Living Standards in the Industrializing West

In this study of newborn weight and economic growth in Boston, Dublin, Edinburgh, Montreal and Vienna between 1850 and 1930, W. Peter Ward explores the relation between infant size, economic development, and living standards of working-class women in the industrializing West.

• | Author: W. Peter Ward
• | Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 1993
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780226873220
• | ISBN-10: 0226873226