David R. Weir
Parental Consumption Decisions and Child Health During the Early French Fertility Decline, 1790–1914
article reexamines secular improvement human heights france adult heights reflect consumption children distribution resources children adults determined primarily within households influenced heights intrahousehold distribution resources influenced level income calorie demands working adults results show early decline marital fertility france accompanied small significant increase expenditures child quality measured heights reductions mortality independent level food intake also contributed improved heights