Economic mobility in a colonial and post-colonial economy: the case of Indonesia.

TY - JOUR

T1 - Economic mobility in a colonial and post-colonial economy: the case of Indonesia.

AU - van Leeuwen, Bas

AU - Földvári, Peter

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Despite a consensus about the main factors influencing economic mobility in Indonesia, such as labor-market opportunities and childhood circumstances, virtually nothing is known about how these factors increased economic standing in the colonial and postcolonial periods. The use of height data as a proxy for people’s economic situation, however, finds that whereas ethnicity was a strong predictor of economic status before Indonesia’s Independence, education assumed that role after 1946.

AB - Despite a consensus about the main factors influencing economic mobility in Indonesia, such as labor-market opportunities and childhood circumstances, virtually nothing is known about how these factors increased economic standing in the colonial and postcolonial periods. The use of height data as a proxy for people’s economic situation, however, finds that whereas ethnicity was a strong predictor of economic status before Indonesia’s Independence, education assumed that role after 1946.

KW - anthropology

KW - human height

KW - indonesia

U2 - 10.1162/JINH_a_00976

DO - 10.1162/JINH_a_00976

M3 - Article

SN - 0022-1953

VL - 47

SP - 171

EP - 191

JO - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

JF - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

IS - 2

ER -