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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 12 21 608
Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States 0 0 0 47 2 3 13 927
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 11 50 78 1,080
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 1 1 1 23 2 4 11 102
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 0 1 26 0 6 13 268
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 0 4 9 171
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 1 1 1 81 1 7 15 136
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 0 21 7 19 31 158
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 0 5 17 204
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 2 12 16 154
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 0 1 3 177 4 25 45 1,692
Height and Per Capita Income 0 1 1 309 1 10 17 1,395
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 0 1 112 0 5 18 335
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 8 29 64 615
Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South 0 0 0 49 0 0 11 56
Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 94 0 6 11 1,330
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 318 1 10 22 1,552
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 0 463 1 9 45 3,461
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 0 191 1 6 20 2,162
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 0 5 12 1,068
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 2 3 14 176
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 1 1 201 0 4 19 1,533
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 1 23 48 1,484
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 1 8 12 393
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 92 0 0 11 325
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 1 3 107 0 11 40 1,842
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 0 1 94 0 2 9 553
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 0 1 44 2 8 16 618
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 78 0 1 8 342
Total Working Papers 2 6 16 3,240 49 290 677 25,141


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A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity 0 0 1 93 2 9 19 278
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 1 9 18 44
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 1 1 42 1 3 8 141
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 0 0 2 32 1 4 17 418
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 0 1 30 0 8 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 2 4 9 100
Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability 0 1 1 203 2 16 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 1 1 1 168 6 19 45 739
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 1 5 10 205
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 33 1 5 12 141
In memory of Robert William Fogel 0 0 0 8 0 0 4 44
Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains 0 0 0 59 2 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 1 2 2 19 2 8 17 79
New Perspectives on the Standard of Living 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 15
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 1 2 3 94 3 7 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 3 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 2 9 263
Preface 0 0 0 9 1 2 3 51
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 0 0 1 15 1 10 24 70
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 0 3 7 167
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 1 1 121 0 4 7 410
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 0 106 0 1 5 360
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 1 5 24 826 3 17 70 2,365
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 4 8 112 18 59 111 1,309
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 0 0 8 0 4 8 47
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 0 0 2 9 0 5 12 68
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 1 1 1 193 4 5 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 3 9 108
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 1 2 10 263
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 1 1 25 0 3 6 170
Total Journal Articles 5 20 55 2,626 53 240 608 11,450


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 426
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 3 9 31 281
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 11 45 707


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Anthropometrics 0 0 0 1 0 3 9 22
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 2 6 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 1 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 1 8 25 144
The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension Among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 8
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 0 1 27 1 7 12 81
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 0 0 0 32 0 3 8 135
Total Chapters 0 1 3 304 6 43 121 1,162


Statistics updated 2026-06-04