Timeseries analysis of the relationship between economic development and people's physical constituion in the pre-war Japan
2004
Matsuda, H. (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan))
Summary This paper clarifies the relationship between economic development and people's physical constitution in the pre-war Japan. People's physical constitution reflects the nutritional status. The nutritional status reflects nutritional intake minus claims on the nutritional intake. These reflects the indivudual's or the group's economic status and level of living. So, People's physical constitution reflects the standard of living via nutritional status. This approach is called anthropometry. There are few anthropometry studies of Japan. The indicators of people's physical constitution in this paper are stature and BMI from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture's publications. The indicator of nutritional intake is amount of protein. The indicators of claims on the nutritional intake is the number of deaths per l0,000 from infectious disease. This paper does unit root test and cointegration test for these indicators. Then, using the result of cointegration test, this paper shows the relationship between a people's physical constitution and nutritional status by OLS.
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