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Transitions that Matter? Czechoslovakia's Break up and Human Stature
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Abstract Changes in a population's average stature are virtuous pointers of wellbeing which are sensitive to improvements in psychosocial environments during childhood. A major structural change that could have altered an environment during childhood is the transition from communist to a liberal democracy, a... mehr
Changes in a population's average stature are virtuous pointers of wellbeing which are sensitive to improvements in psychosocial environments during childhood. A major structural change that could have altered an environment during childhood is the transition from communist to a liberal democracy, and, more specifically, the meltdown of the Soviet bloc provides for a quasi-natural experiment. This paper examines the trends in heights in the Czech Republic and Slovakia before and after the transition and the subsequent break-up of the Czechoslovakian federation. We find that one additional year of exposure to a liberal democracy while growing up is associated with an increasing population stature of 0.28 cm among Slovaks and 0.15 cm among Czechs. We only find changes in stature among men who are more sensitive to environmental stress, especially at the lower end of the current socio-economic status. Results are robust to alternative datasets and measures of democracy.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Transition; Demokratie; Tschechische Republik; Tschechoslowakei; Demokratisierung; körperliche Entwicklung; Slowakei; Körper; Sezession
Klassifikation
Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen
Medizin, Sozialmedizin
Freie Schlagwörter
2003 World Health Survey (WHS); ZA4415: Eurobarometer 64.3 (Nov-Dec 2005)
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 1-13
Zeitschriftentitel
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16 (2019) 24
Heftthema
Feature Papers: Health Economics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16245050
ISSN
1660-4601
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)