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Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height 0 0 0 99 2 10 23 610
Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States 0 0 0 47 0 2 13 927
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 8 46 86 1,088
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 1 1 23 0 4 11 102
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 0 1 26 2 5 15 270
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 0 3 9 171
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 0 1 1 81 0 5 14 136
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 0 21 10 25 41 168
Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves 0 0 0 36 3 8 20 207
Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices, and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves 0 0 0 32 0 6 16 154
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 0 0 3 177 1 14 46 1,693
Height and Per Capita Income 0 1 1 309 0 6 17 1,395
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 0 0 112 2 6 19 337
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 2 28 66 617
Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South 0 0 0 49 1 1 11 57
Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 94 0 3 11 1,330
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 318 0 8 22 1,552
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 0 463 4 7 48 3,465
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 0 191 2 8 22 2,164
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 2 6 14 1,070
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 0 2 12 176
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 1 1 201 1 3 20 1,534
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 3 11 401
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 107 0 16 48 1,484
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 2 9 14 395
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 92 0 0 11 325
The Great Divergence and Convergence of Stature in Eurasia: Trends and Economic Correlates over the Last Eight Millennia 1 2 2 2 1 3 3 3
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 0 3 107 4 9 44 1,846
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 0 1 94 0 1 8 553
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 0 1 44 1 8 17 619
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 78 2 3 10 344
Total Working Papers 1 6 17 3,242 50 258 722 25,193


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A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity 0 0 1 93 2 6 21 280
A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves 0 0 0 16 0 0 6 65
Antebellum Southern White Fertility: A Demographic and Economic Analysis 0 0 1 2 0 7 17 44
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 0 1 42 0 1 8 141
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 0 0 2 32 1 4 18 419
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 0 1 30 0 1 16 164
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 9
Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 41
Hard times in 19th-century Sweden: A reply 0 0 0 14 1 5 10 101
Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability 0 0 1 203 0 5 32 826
Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 0 0 0 37 0 2 5 128
Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions 0 1 1 168 2 18 47 741
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 0 4 10 205
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 33 0 4 12 141
In memory of Robert William Fogel 0 0 0 8 0 0 3 44
Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains 0 0 0 59 0 2 8 166
Medicine and American Growth, 1800–1860. By James H. Cassedy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 298. $39.50 cloth, $19.95 paper 0 0 0 3 0 2 6 37
New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 1 2 19 2 9 18 81
New Perspectives on the Standard of Living 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 15
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 0 1 3 94 0 4 12 802
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960. By Carl Mosk. Orlando: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 320. $41.50 0 0 1 8 0 2 6 64
Personal Performance 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 41 0 1 9 263
Preface 0 0 0 9 0 2 3 51
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 0 0 1 15 4 10 27 74
RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND 0 0 1 45 0 1 9 233
Research project: A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present 0 1 1 34 1 3 7 168
Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History. By James C. Riley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 243. $49.95, cloth; $16.95, paper 0 0 1 121 0 2 7 410
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 0 106 2 2 7 362
Society and Family Strategy: Erie County, New York, 1850–1920. By Mark J. Stern. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 172. $39.50 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 38
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. By Michael Tadman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 317. $27.75 0 0 0 5 0 1 9 61
Stature and the Standard of Living 0 3 22 826 7 16 72 2,372
THE WEALTH MOBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s 0 0 1 30 0 1 11 391
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 3 8 112 4 48 114 1,313
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 0 0 8 1 5 8 48
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 0 0 2 9 0 4 11 68
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 0 1 1 193 0 4 10 470
Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves 0 0 0 15 0 0 4 48
Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. By David W. Galenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 230. $34.50 0 0 0 9 0 1 6 49
Virginia Slave-Trade Statistics 1698–1775. By Walter Michinton, Celia King, and Peter Waite. Rchmond: Virginia State Library, 1984. Pp. xvi, 218. $45.00 0 0 0 10 0 2 7 108
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 0 2 10 263
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 0 1 25 0 2 6 170
Total Journal Articles 0 11 53 2,626 27 192 620 11,477


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 1 3 14 427
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 2 10 33 283
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 13 47 710


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Anthropometrics 1 1 1 2 2 4 10 24
Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 53 0 3 7 136
Conclusions 0 0 0 14 0 1 4 35
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 39 0 5 18 159
Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" 0 0 0 36 0 1 5 146
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 73 0 5 21 269
Robert W. Fogel (1926–2013) 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 9
Slavery and Discrimination 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 18
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 1 1 28 0 7 25 144
The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension Among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 8
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 0 0 27 1 7 12 82
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 0 0 0 32 0 3 8 135
Total Chapters 1 2 3 305 3 42 122 1,165


Statistics updated 2026-07-10