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The height gini is a transformation of the coefficient of height inequality, based on Moradi and Baten's formula: g htgini=-33.5 + 20.5*cv.\n\nData quality: As good as possible, but counter-checking and improvement welcome. Interpretations on individual country level should be done with careful checking. An important caveat is many individual countries cannot be measured without a substantial amount of measurement error. The tendencies of anthropometric inequality by world region (in which country-specific measurement error tends to average out) is probably informative.\n\nPublisher source: Data collated from a host of academic papers. Please refer to the link for the complete list.","producer":"Various sources","citationFull":"Clio-Infra. (2015). Biological Standards of Living datasets curated by Baten and Blum (2015). International Institute of Social History. Underlying publications:\n\nFor the post-1800 period: Baten, Joerg and Matthias Blum, \"Growing Taller, but Unequal: Biological Well-Being in World Regions and Its Determinants, 1810-1989.\" Economic History of Developing Regions (2012).\n\nFor the pre-1800 period: Koepke, Nikola and Baten, Joerg \"The Biological Standard of Living in Europe During the Last Two Millennia,\" in European Review of Economic History 9-1 (2005).\n\nJörg Baten and Matthias Blum, \"Anthropometric within-country Inequality and the Estimation of Skill Premia with Anthropometric Indicators\", Review of Economics -- Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftswissenschaften (2011).","attributionShort":"Clio-Infra","urlMain":"https://clio-infra.eu/","dateAccessed":"2017-09-09","datePublished":"2015"}]}