Working Papers and Recent Publications by Jörg Baten
| 109 | "Health Insurance and Height Inequality: Evidence from European Health Insurance Expansions", Joerg Baten, Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font, Laura Radatz | 2024 | |
| 108 | "Measuring Multidimensional Inequality and Conflict in Africa and in a Global Comparison", Laura Radatz and Joerg Baten | 2022 | |
| 107 | "Age heaping and life course reckoning: Individual-level evidence from Spanish Inquisition records", Joerg Baten and Sara Nalle | 2022 | |
| 106 | "Inequality and Life Expectancy in Africa and Asia, 1820-2000", Lisa Martin and Joerg Baten | 2022 | |
| 105 | "Nutrition matters: Numeracy, Child Nutrition and Schooling Efficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa in long-term perspective", Sarah Ferber and Joerg Baten | 2022 | |
| 104 | Technical Paper: Sources to update the Clioinfra dataset for Europe | 2021 | |
| 103 | "Inequality, Low-Intensity Immigration and Human Capital Formation in the Regions of Chile, 1820-1939", Joerg Baten and Manuel Llorca-Jaña | 2021 | |
| 102 | "Territorial State Capacity and Elite Violence from the 6th to the 19th Century", Joerg Baten, Thomas Keywood and Georg Wamser | 2021 | |
| 101 | "Land Inequality in Numeracy in Spain During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century", Mari Carmen Pérez-Artéz and Joerg Baten | 2021 | |
| 100 | "Numeracy Development in Africa: New Evidence from a Long-Term Perspective (1730 - 1970)", Gabriele Cappelli and Joerg Baten | 2021 | |
99 | "The Influence of Colonialism on Africa's Welfare: An Anthrometric Study", Jörg Baten and Laura Maravall | 2021 | |
| 98 | "Educational Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Long-Term Perspective", with Michiel de Haas, Elisabeth Kempter and Felix Meier zu Selhausen | 2020 | |
| 97 a) | "Growth disruption in children: linear enamel hypoplasias" (Chapter 6), from "The Backbone of Europe: Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia" (Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), with Zsolt Bereczki, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Antonia Marcsik and Nicholas J. Meinzer | 2019 | |
| 97 b) | Agricultural Specialization, Urbanization, Workload and Stature (Chapter 8), from "The Backbone of Europe: Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia" (Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), with Nicholas J. Meinzer, Richard H. Steckel. | 2019 | |
| 97 c) | The History of Violence in Europe: Evidence from Cranial and Postcranial Bone Trauma (Chapter 10), from "The Backbone of Europe: Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia" (Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), with Richard H. Steckel. | 2019 | |
| 97 d) | Multidimensional Patterns of European Health, Work, and Violence over the Past Two Millennia (Chapter 13), from "The Backbone of Europe: Health, Diet, Work and Violence over Two Millennia" (Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2019), with Richard H. Steckel, Clark Spencer Larsen and Charlotte A. Roberts. | 2019 | |
| 96 | "Elite Violence and Elite Numeracy in Africa from 1400 CE to 1950 CE", with Kleoniki Alexopolou. | 2021 | |
| 95 | "Elite Violence and Elite Numeracy in Europe from 500 to 1900 CE: A Co-Evolution?", with Thomas Keywood. | 2019 | |
94 | "The Human Capital of Religious Minorities in Spain and Portugal during the Inquisition Era", with Dácil Juif and Mari Carmen Pérez-Artés. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History. | 2019
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| 93 | "Interpersonal violence in South Asia, 900-1900", with Sarah Gust | 2019 | |
| 92 a) | "Height Development of Men and Women from China, South Korea, and Taiwan during the Rapid Economic Transformation Period of the 1960s to 1980s", with Daniel Schwekendiek. Economics and Human Biology. | 2019 | |
| 92 b) | "Strategies to cope with potential labor market bias and other selectivities in height research" | 2015 | |
| 91 | "Valkyries: Was gender inequality high in the Scandinavian periphery since Viking times? Evidence from enamel hypoplasia and height ratios", with Laura Maravall | 2019 | |
| 90 | "Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of John Komlos, the Founding Editor of Economics and Human Biology Economics and Human Biology" | 2019 | |
| 89 | "Geography, land inequality and regional numeracy in Europe in historical perspective", with Ralph Hippe. Journal of Economic Growth. | 2018 | |
| 88 | "Female autonomy generated successful long-term human capital development: Evidence from 16th to 19th century Europe", with Alexandra de Pleijt. | 2018 | |
| 87 | "Compulsory licensing and innovation - Historical evidence from German patents after WWI", with Petra Moser and Nicola Bianchi | 2017 | |
| 86 | "Girl Power" in Eastern Europe? The Human Capital Development of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries and Its Determinants", with Mikołaj Szołtysek and Monica Campestrini | 2017 | |
| 85 | “Economics, Human Biology and Inequality: a review of “puzzles” and recent contributions from a Deatonian perspective” | 2017 | |
| 84 | "European Trade, Colonialism and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770 - 1900", with Gabriele Cappelli. CESifo Working Papers. | 2017 | |
| 83 | "Farmers at the heart of the human capital revolution. Decomposing the numeracy increase in early modern Europe", with Franziska Tollnek. Economic History Review | 2017 | |
| 82 | "Numeracy in Early Modern Korea, Japan, and China: the Age-Heaping Approach", with Kitae Sohn. Japan and the World Economy. | 2017 | |
| 81 | "Institutional Quality, cash-Crop Farming, Colonialism and Early Numeracy Development in West Africa, 18th to early 20th Century", with Gabriele Cappelli | 2017 | |
| 80 | "A Curse of ‘Point Source’ Resources? Cash Crops and Numeracy on the Philippines 19th-20th Century", with Jean-Pascal Bassino. | 2016 | |
| 79 | "Age-Heaping-Based Human Capital Estimates", with Franziska Tollnek | 2016 | |
| 78 | "Middle East and North Africa", with Rima Ghanem. From: "A History of the Global Economy. 1500 to the Present" | 2016 | |
| 77 | "Numeracy of Africans, Asians, and Europeans during the Early Modern Period: New Evidence from Cape Colony Court Registers”, with Johan Fourie | 2015 | |
| 76 | "Social and Intertemporal Differences of Basic Numeracy in Pannonia (1st Century BCE- 3rd Century CE)”, with Stefan Priwitzer | 2015 | |
| 75 | "Poor, Hungry and Ignorant: Numeracy and the Impact of High Food Prices in Industrializing Britain, 1780-1850”, with Dorothee Crayen and Hans-Joachim Voth | 2014 | |
| 74 | "The Changing Shape of Global Inequality 1820-2000. Exploring a New Dataset”, with Jan Luiten van Zanden, Péter Földvari, and Bas van Leeuwen | 2014 | |
| 73 | "Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights”, with Matthias Blum | 2014 | |
| 72 a) | "Human Height", with Matthias Blum. From "How was Life? Global Well-Being since 1820.", OECD Paris | 2014 | |
| 72 b) | "Personal Security - Homicide, Interstate War, and Civil War", with Winny Bierman, Peter Foldvari and Jan Luiten van Zanden. "How was Life? Global Well-Being since 1820.", OECD Paris. | 2014 | |
| 71 | "War der Adel eine Elitegruppe? Die 'Numeracy' verschiedener Sozialgruppen im Georgien des 19. Jahrhunderts“, with Tinatin Sirbiladze | 2014 | |
| 70 | "A Story of Large Land-Owners and Math Skills: Inequality and Human Capital Formation in Long-Run Development, 1820-2000", with Dácil Juif. Journal of Comparative Economics. | 2014 | |
| 69 | "On the Human Capital of Inca Indos before and after the Spanish Conquest", with Dácil Tania Juif | 2013 | |
| 68 | "Growth effects of 19th century mass migrations: “Fome Zero” for Brazil?", with Yvonne Stolz, Joerg Baten and Tarcísio Botelho | 2013 | |
| 67 | "Portuguese Living Standards 1720-1980 – Heights, Income and Human Capital", with Yvonne Stolz, Joerg Baten, and Jaime Reis | 2013 | |
| 66 | "Long-Term Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Indonesia”, with Mojgan Stegl and Pierre van der Eng | 2013 | |
| 65 | "The Biological Standard of Living and Body Height in Colonial and Post-Colonial Indonesia, 1770–2000", with Mojgan Stegl and Pierre van der Eng. Journal of Bioeconomics | 2013 | |
| 64 | "Big is beautiful" La productivité des entreprises en fonction de leur taille en Allemagne et aux États-Unis au tournant des XIX e -XX e siècles | 2013 | |
| 63 | "The Early Regional Development of Human Capital in Europe, 1790 – 1880”, with Ralph Hippe | 2012 | |
| 62 | "On the Status and the Future of Economic History in the World”, with Julia Muschallik | 2012 | |
| 61 | "Convergence and Divergence of Numeracy: The Development of Age Heaping in Latin America, 17th to 20th Centuries", with Kerstin Manzel, Yvonne Stolz and Jörg Baten | 2012 | |
| 60 | "Growing Tall, but Unequal: Biological Well-Being in World Regions and Its Determinants, 1810-1989", with Matthias Blum and Jörg Baten | 2012 | |
| 59 | "An Anthropometric History of the World, 1810-1980: Did Migration and Globalization Influence Country Trends?” with Matthias Blum | 2012 | |
| 58 | "Women count. Gender (In-)Equalities in the Human Capital Development in Asia, 1900-1960", with Julia Friesen and Valeria Prayon | 2012 | |
| 57 | "Brain Drain, Numeracy and Skill Premia during the Era of Mass Migration: Reassessing the Roy-Borjas Model”, with Yvonne Stolz | 2012 | |
| 56 | "The Biological Standard of Living in Early 19th-Century West Africa: New Anthropometric Evidence", with Gareth Austin, Bas van Leeuwen Jörg Baten | 2012 | |
| 55 | "Foreign direct investment of German companies during globalization and deglobalization periods", with Gerhard Kling and Kirsten Labuske | 2011 | |
| 54 | "Civil War Determinants From a Long-Term Perspective: Was There Impact Of Anthropometric Deprivation From 1816-1999?", with Christina Mumme and Jörg Baten | 2011 | |
| 53 | "Anthropometric within-country Inequality and the Estimation of Skill Premia with Anthropometric Indicators", with Matthias Blum. Review of Economics | 2011 | |
| 52 | "Children’s Height and Parental Unemployment: A LargeScale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994– 2006", with Andreas Böhm. German Economic Review. | 2010 | |
| 51 | "Population and Living Standards 1914-1945", with Robert Millward. Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. | 2010 | |
| 50 | "Global Trends in Numeracy 1820-1949 and its Implications for Long-Term Growth", with Dorothee Crayen | 2010 | |
| 49 | "New Evidence and New Methods to Measure Human Capital Inequality before and during the Industrial Revolution: France and the U.S. in the 17th to 19th Centuries", with Dorothee Crayen | 2010 | |
| 48 | "Latin American Anthropometrics, Past and Present–an Overview", with Scott Carson and Jörg Baten | 2010 | |
| 47 | Globalization and Educational Inequality in Long-Run Development during the 17th to 20th Centuries: Latin America and other Developing World Regions”, with Christina Mumme, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (forthcoming) | 2010 | |
| 46 | "Did the Railway Increase Inequality? A Micro-Regional Analysis of Heights in the Hinterland of the Booming Ruhr Area During the Late 19th Century", with Georg Fertig | 2010 | |
| 45 | "Trends of Children's Height and Parental Unemployment: A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994-2006", with Andreas Böhm | 2010 | unavailable |
| 44 | "Population and Living Standards 1914-45", with Robert Millward | 2010 | |
| 43 | "Regional Determinants of Firm Creation in the Russian Empire. Evidence from the 1870 Industrial Exhibition", with Dominic Behle | 2010 | |
| 42 | "Evolution of Living Standards and Human Capital in China in the 18-20th Centuries: Evidences from Real Wages, Age-heaping, and Anthropometrics", with Debin Ma, Stephen Morgan and Qing Wang | 2010 | |
| 41 | "Population and Living Standards 1914-45", with Robert Millward | 2010 | |
| 40 | "Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital", with Brian A’Hearn and Dorothee Crayen | 2009 | |
| 39 | "On the Persistence of Human Capital and Patent Effects Around 1900 on Per Capita Levels in the 1960s", with Kirsten Labuske | 2009 | |
| 38 | "The Anthropometric History of Argentina, Brazil and Peru during the 19th and early 20th Century", with Ines Pelger and Linda Twrdek | 2009 | |
| 37 | "Protein Supply and Nutritional Status in Nineteenth Century Bavaria, Prussia and France" | 2009 | |
| 36 | "Tall and Shrinking Muslims, Short and Growing Europeans: The Long-Run Welfare Development of the Middle East, 1850-1980", with Mojgan Stegl | 2009 | |
| 35 | "Gender Equality and Inequality in Numeracy: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1880-1949", with Kerstin Manzel | 2009 | |
| 34 | "Measuring Gender Well-Being with Biological Welfare Indicators" | 2009 | |
| 33 | "Anthropometric Trends in Southern China, 1830-1864", with Sandew Hira | 2008 | |
| 32 | "Book Production at the Onset of Modern Economic Growth", with Jan-Luiten Van Zanden | 2008 | |
| 31 | "Agricultural Specialization and Height in Ancient and Medieval Europe", with Nikola Koepke | 2008 | |
| 30 | "Heights, Inequality, and Trade in the Latin American Perphery, 1950-2004", with Markus Baltzer | 2008 | |
| 29 | "Zahlenfaehigkeit und Zahlendisziplin in Nord- und Westdeutschland, 16.-18. Jahrhundert" Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte | 2008 | |
| 28 | "Growth Accounting in Items of Turbulence and Death: Efficiency, Technology, Capital Accumulation and Human Capital 1929-1950" | 2007 | |
| 27 | "What made southwest German firms innovative around 1900? Assessing the importance of intra- and inter-industry externalities", with Anna Spadavecchia, Jochen Streb, and Shuxi Yin | 2007 | |
| 26 | "Exploring the evolution of living standards in Ghana, 1880-2000: An anthropometric approach”, with Gareth Austin and Alexander Moradi | 2007 | |
| 25 | "Global height trends and its determinants, 1810-1984: an overview", with Matthias Blum | 2006 | |
| 24 | "The Development and Inequality of Heights in North, West and East India, 1910-44", with Aravinda Meera Guntupalli | 2006 | |
| 23 | "Technological and Geographical Knowledge Spill-overs in the German Empire 1877-1918", with Jochen Streb and Shuxi Yin | 2006 | |
| 22 | "Numeracy, Inequality, Age Heaping, and Economic Growth: New Estimation Strategies for Western Europe and the U.S. (17th - 19th centuries)" | 2006 | |
| 21 | Climate and its Impact on the Biological Standard of Living in North-East, Centre-West, and South Europe during the last 2000 Years" History of Meteorology | 2005 | |
| 20 | "Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Data and New Insights from Antropometric Estimates", with Alexander Moradi | 2005 | |
| 19 | "The Biological Standard of Living in Europe During the Last Two Millennia", with Nikola Koepke. European Review of Economic History. | 2005 | |
| 18 | "Making Profits in War-Time: Corporate Profits, Inequality, and GDP in Germany During WWI", with Rainer Schulz | 2005 | |
| 17 | "Market Integration and Disintegration of Poland and Germany in the 18th Century", with Jacek Wallusch. Economies et Societes (2005, forthcoming) | 2005 | |
| 16 | "Did Partial Globalization Increase Inequality? The Case of the Latin American Periphery, 1950-2000", with Uwe Fraunholz. CESifo Economic Studies 50-1 (2004), pp. 45-84. | 2004 | |
| 15 | "Creating Firms for a new Century: Determinants of Firm Creation in Southern Germany around 1900". European Review of Economic History 7-3 (2004), pp. 301-329 | 2004 | |
| 14 | "The Technical Component of Human Capital and its Determinants, in 51 Countries, 1880–1913" | 2004 | |
| 13 | "Patenting Abroad and Human Capital Formation", with Kirsten Labuske | 2004 | |
| 12 | "Autarchy, Market Disintegration, and Health: The Mortality and Nutritional Crisis in Nazi Germany 1933-37", with Andrea Wagner | 2003 | |
| 11 | "Economic Determinants of Witch Hunting", with Ulrich Woitek | 2003 | |
| 10 | "Mangelernährung, Krankheit und Sterblichkeit im NS-Wirtschaftsaufschwung (1933-1937)" | 2003 | |
| 9 | "Climate, Grain Production and Nutritional Status in 18th Century Southern Germany" | 2002 | |
| 8 | "Economic Development and the Distribution of Nutritional Resources in Bavaria, 1797-1839" | 2000 | |
| 7 | "Heights and real wages in the 18th and 19th centuries: an international overview" | 2000 | PDF Appendix |
| 6 | "Anthopometrics, Consumption, and Leisure: The Standard of Living", in Sheilagh Ogilvie/Richard Overy (eds.), Germany: A New Social and Economic History, vol. III: 1800-1989. London: Edward Arnold, 2000 (forthcoming). | 2000 | |
| 5 | "Heights of Men and Women in Nineteenth Century Bavaria: Economic, Nutritional, and Disease Influences" | 2000 | |
| 4 | "Ernährung und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in Bayern", 1730-1880. Stuttgart (1999). [Nutrition and Economic Development in Bavaria, 1730-1880] | 1999 | |
| 3 | "Smallpox and Nutritional Status in England, 1770-1873: On the Difficulties of Estimating Historical Heights", with Markus Heintel. Economic History Review 51-2 (1998), pp. 360-371 | 1998 | |
| 2 | "Women's Stature and Marriage Markets in Pre-Industrial Bavaria", with John Murray. Journal of Family History 23-2 (1998), pp. 124-135 | 1998 | |
| 1 | "A Most Difficult Case of Estimation: Argentinian Heights, 1770-1840", with Ricardo Salvatore, in John Komlos/Joerg Baten (eds.): The Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective. Stuttgart 1998, pp. 90-96. | 1998 |
Research Projects
- "Steuerunterlagen als unternehmenshistorische Quelle. Ein Pilotprojekt zur Messung des Erfolgs deutscher Unternehmen im internationalen Vergleich (1878-1913)" (1999-2002, Abschlussbericht von Jörg Baten)
- Technologietransfer während des deutschen Wachstumserfolges, 1880-1913: Übertragungskanäle und Spill-over-Effekte zwischen Unternehmen, Branchen und Regionen" (2003-2005) Summary