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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 6 13 20 606
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 11 925
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 27 47 67 1,069
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 0 22 2 3 9 100
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 0 1 26 3 8 13 268
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 3 4 9 171
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 0 0 0 80 4 6 14 135
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 0 21 8 14 24 151
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 5 6 17 204
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 0 1 3 177 9 27 41 1,688
Height and Per Capita Income 1 1 1 309 5 9 18 1,394
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 0 1 112 4 5 20 335
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 18 25 56 607
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 3 7 11 1,330
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 318 7 10 21 1,551
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 2 15 45 3,460
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 1 191 5 7 20 2,161
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 4 5 12 1,068
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 0 3 12 174
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 1 1 1 201 2 10 19 1,533
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 0 3 4 11 401
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 107 15 27 49 1,483
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 6 7 11 392
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 5 14 40 1,842
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 0 1 94 1 3 9 553
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 0 1 44 5 7 14 616
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 78 1 2 8 342
Total Working Papers 2 4 16 3,206 153 290 623 24,940


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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 17 276
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 6 9 17 43
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 1 1 42 0 2 7 140
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 0 0 2 32 2 6 16 417
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 0 1 30 1 11 16 164
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 3 7 98
Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability 0 1 2 203 3 16 33 824
Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 0 0 0 37 2 3 5 128
Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions 0 0 0 167 10 21 40 733
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 3 5 9 204
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 33 3 7 11 140
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 0 0 6 164
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 2 4 6 37
New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 1 1 18 5 8 16 77
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 0 2 2 93 1 5 9 799
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960. By Carl Mosk. Orlando: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 320. $41.50 0 0 1 8 2 4 6 64
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 41 1 3 9 263
Preface 0 0 0 9 1 1 2 50
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 0 0 1 15 5 10 24 69
RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND 0 0 1 45 1 1 9 233
Research project: A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present 1 1 1 34 2 5 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 2 4 7 410
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 0 106 0 2 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 4 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 1 3 9 61
Stature and the Standard of Living 2 4 24 825 6 22 68 2,362
THE WEALTH MOBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s 0 0 1 30 1 1 12 391
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 3 4 8 112 26 49 94 1,291
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 0 0 8 4 4 8 47
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 0 0 2 9 4 5 12 68
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 0 0 0 192 0 2 6 466
Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves 0 0 0 15 0 1 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 1 2 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 2 3 9 108
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 1 2 9 262
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 1 1 25 2 4 6 170
Total Journal Articles 6 16 52 2,619 108 241 552 11,371


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 2 6 14 426
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 5 9 28 278
Total Books 0 0 0 0 7 15 42 704


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 53 3 3 9 136
Conclusions 0 0 0 14 1 1 4 35
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 1 39 3 4 17 157
Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" 0 0 0 36 1 1 5 146
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 73 4 6 21 268
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 1 1 1 28 6 7 24 143
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 0 1 27 5 6 11 80
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 0 0 0 32 3 3 8 135
Total Chapters 1 1 5 302 26 31 99 1,100


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