Why the Dutch are the tallest people on Earth
he average Dutch man is 9% taller today than 200 years ago, but today’s Dutch children are shorter than their...
I have degrees in economics, health sciences and history, although my research is most at home in health demography. In my research, I explore long-run changes in health and mortality, and use statistical and computational methods to do so. My Ph.D. project (alongside Bjorn Quanjer) focused on explaining how the Dutch have grown to be the tallest nation in the world, and what consequences this might have for social, economic and health outcomes.
he average Dutch man is 9% taller today than 200 years ago, but today’s Dutch children are shorter than their...