Joerg Baten

Best Publications

• Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital

  Brian A'Hearn;Jörg Baten;Dorothee Crayen

  428
  Citations

• The biological standard of living in Europe during the last two millennia

  Nikola Koepke;Joerg Baten

  294
  Citations

• Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Anthropometric Research and the Development of Social Science History

  John Komlos;Jorg Baten

  238
  Citations

• Book production and the onset of modern economic growth

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  233
  Citations

• Heights of Men and Women in 19th-Century Bavaria: Economic, Nutritional, and Disease Influences

  Jörg Baten;John E. Murray

  227
  Citations

• Growing Tall but Unequal: New Findings and New Background Evidence on Anthropometric Welfare in 156 Countries, 1810–1989

  Joerg Baten;Matthias Blum

  206
  Citations

• The changing shape of global inequality 1820-2000 : exploring a new dataset

  Jan Luiten van Zanden;Joerg Baten;Peter Foldvari;Bas van Leeuwen

  206
  Citations

• Global trends in numeracy 1820–1949 and its implications for long-term growth

  Dorothee Crayen;Joerg Baten

  196
  Citations

• Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Data and New Insights from Anthropometric Estimates

  Alexander Moradi;Joerg Baten

  163
  Citations

• Human height since 1820

  Joerg Baten;Matthias Blum

  155
  Citations

• Evolution of living standards and human capital in China in the 18-20th centuries: Evidences from real wages, age-heaping, and anthropometrics

  Joerg Baten;Debin Ma;Stephen Morgan;Stephen Morgan;Qing Wang

  140
  Citations

• Global Trends in Numeracy 1820-1949 and its Implications for Long-Run Growth

  Dorothee Crayen;Jörg Baten;Jörg Baten;Jörg Baten

  135
  Citations

• Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights

  Joerg Baten;Matthias Blum

  127
  Citations

• Economic development and the distribution of nutritional resources in Bavaria, 1797–1839: An anthropometric study

  Joerg Baten

  117
  Citations

• Agricultural specialization and height in ancient and medieval Europe

  Nikola Koepke;Joerg Baten

  114
  Citations

• The development and inequality of heights in North, West, and East India 1915–1944 ☆

  Aravinda Meera Guntupalli;Joerg Baten

  108
  Citations

• Height and the Standard of Living

  Jörg Baten;John Komlos

  107
  Citations

• Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?

  Yvonne Stolz;Joerg Baten

  99
  Citations

• Protein supply and nutritional status in nineteenth century Bavaria, Prussia and France.

  Joerg Baten

  96
  Citations

• A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000

  Joerg Baten;Dácil Juif

  95
  Citations