Costa-i-Font, Joan 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7174-7919 and Kossarova, Lucia
(2015)
Height increases in the Czech Republic and Slovakia illustrate the effect of self-determination on citizens’ well-being.
LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog
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Abstract
What does a nation’s height tell us about the well-being of its citizens? As Joan Costa Font and Lucia Kossarova write, an increase in the average height of a population is regarded as an indicator of an improvement in well-being, with this effect being linked to changes in social conditions. Based on a case study of Czechoslovakia, they argue that improvements in the capacity for self-determination in the country, linked both to the transition to a liberal democracy and the state’s separation into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, led to an improvement in citizens’ well-being, as indicated by an improvement in the average height of the population.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Mar 2017 11:14 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 23:59 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71117 |
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