Living Standards

Living Standards is an economic-historical concept that denotes the level and distribution of material well-being and associated welfare conditions (such as income, consumption, health, and education) experienced by individuals or populations in a given society and period, typically inferred from quantitative indicators like real wages, consumption patterns, anthropometric measures, and mortality rates.

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Variants

Standard Of LivingStandards Of Living

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Economic History

Children

Consumer PricesEconomic WelfareEngels' LawMaterial Well-beingReal ConsumptionReal WagesRural Living StandardsStandard Of Living MeasurementSubsistence MinimumUrban Living Standards

Publications

652

A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth

N. Gregory Mankiw, Daniel Römer, David Weil · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1992 · 15.1K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Human Development +17

Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

Andrew J. Oswald, David G. Blanchflower, David G. Blanchflower · 1999 · 2.8K citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Sociology +16

Stature and the Standard of Living

Richard H. Steckel · Journal of Economic Literature · 1995 · 1.3K citations

Social Sciences, Demography, Economics +17

Health and Welfare during Industrialization

Richard H. Steckel, Roderick Floud · 1997 · 655 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, History +17

Measuring living standards with proxy variables

Mark R. Montgomery, Michele Gragnolati, Kathleen A. Burke et al. · Demography · 2000 · 637 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Economics, Econometrics +13

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Peter Saunders
UNSW Sydney, Australia
11 publications · 452 citations
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Donald Hirsch
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
10 publications · 273 citations
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Richard H. Steckel
The Ohio State University, United States
9 publications · 2.6K citations
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Brian Nolan
Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, United States
7 publications · 312 citations
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Abigail Davis
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
7 publications · 407 citations
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The Economic History Review
27 publications · 1.7K citations
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The Journal of Economic History
21 publications · 2K citations
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SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 25 publications · 841 citations
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Repository · 29 publications · 1K citations
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Review of Income and Wealth
21 publications · 1K citations
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