作者:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Northwestern University
作者:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
作者:Northwestern University; University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln
作者:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
作者:University of California System; University of California Irvine
作者:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要:According to conventional income measures, American and British industrial workers in the late nineteenth century were two to four times as wealthy as those in developing countries today. Estimated calorie expenditure elasticities of American and British industrial workers based on the 1888 Cost of Living Survey are greater than calorie elasticity estimates for developing countries today, which suggest that yesterday's wealthy workers were hungrier than today's poor. The result is robust to nu...