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The transformation of hunger revisited: estimating available calories from the budgets of late nineteenth-century British households
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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:35 authored by Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell, Mintewab BezabihLevels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late nineteenth century have been much debated. Trevon Logan (2006, 2009) estimated a very low average level of available calories. This paper re-examines the data and finds average levels of available calories much more in line with existing studies, more in line with what is known about energy requirements, and more in line with other aspects of the data. In sum, British households were likely to have been significantly better fed than Logan reports.
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The Living Standards of Working Households in Britain, 1904-1960; G0075; ESRC-ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; ES/H000666/1
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Journal of Economic HistoryISSN
0022-0507Publisher
Cambdrige University Press for the Economic History AssociationExternal DOI
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2Volume
75Page range
512-525Department affiliated with
- History Publications
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2015-09-24First Open Access (FOA) Date
2015-09-24First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2015-09-24Usage metrics
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