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Title
The Biological Standard of Living in Indonesia during the 20th Century: Evidence from the Age at Menarche
Creator
Creator Name
van der Eng, Pierre van der Eng, Pierre
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Research School of Management, ANU College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University
Creator Name
Sohn, Kitae Sohn, Kitae
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Department of Economics, Konkuk University
Editor
Contributor Name
Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Key Word
living standards
human growth
menarche
Indonesia
Asia
JEL
I12
I31
N15
O15
Abstract
This paper analyses long-term changes in the mean age at menarche (MAM) as a biological indicator of changes in the standard of living in Indonesia. It finds that MAM was about 15.5 for birth cohorts in the late-19th century, decreasing to 14.5 by the 1930s, at which level it stagnated until the gradual decrease resumed since the early 1960s to around 12.5 in the mid-2000s. The paper considers that long-term improvements in nutrition, educational attainment and health care explain these trends. An international comparison of long-term changes finds that MAM in Indonesia was much lower than in Korea and China until respectively 1970 and 1990, but comparable to Japan until 1950 and to Malaysia until 1930. The paper presents reasons why these differences are unlikely to be related to dissimilarities in climate and ethnicity, and concludes that they are indicative of relative standards of living.
Description
This version: 5 October 2018
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2018-11
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
CEI Working Paper Series, No. 2018-12
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  http://cei.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/English/index.html
Number of Pages
26
Sponsorship
Research for this paper benefited from support of the DP140103603 project of the Australian Research Council.
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CEI Working Paper Series
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https://hdl.handle.net/10086/29739