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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 2 4 589
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 2 5 916
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 1 1 2 1,004
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 0 22 0 1 3 93
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 0 0 25 0 1 3 256
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 0 0 1 163
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 0 0 0 80 0 1 2 123
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 0 21 1 1 3 129
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 1 2 2 189
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 1 2 2 176 1 2 6 1,650
Height and Per Capita Income 0 0 0 308 1 2 6 1,381
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 0 1 112 1 3 7 322
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 0 1 3 553
Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South 0 0 0 49 2 2 3 48
Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 94 0 0 1 1,319
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective 0 1 1 317 1 3 4 1,533
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 0 0 9 3,417
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 1 191 0 0 3 2,143
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 1 1 3 1,058
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 1 1 5 165
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 200 2 3 4 1,517
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 391
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 1 107 0 1 17 1,439
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 0 1 1 382
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 92 3 5 7 320
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 1 1 105 1 2 4 1,804
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 1 1 94 0 1 2 546
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 0 0 43 1 1 5 603
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 78 0 0 1 334
Total Working Papers 1 5 9 3,198 23 41 117 24,387


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A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity 0 0 3 93 2 3 8 263
A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves 0 0 0 16 1 1 3 61
Antebellum Southern White Fertility: A Demographic and Economic Analysis 0 0 0 1 2 3 5 30
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 0 1 41 0 1 2 134
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 0 0 0 30 1 2 4 403
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 0 0 29 0 0 4 150
Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 32
Hard times in 19th-century Sweden: A reply 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 91
Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability 0 0 4 202 0 1 12 796
Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 0 0 2 37 0 0 8 123
Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions 0 0 0 167 1 3 17 699
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 1 1 1 196
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 129
In memory of Robert William Fogel 0 0 0 8 1 1 3 43
Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains 0 0 0 59 0 1 3 160
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 1 1 32
New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 17 1 1 4 65
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 0 0 1 91 0 0 2 791
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960. By Carl Mosk. Orlando: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 320. $41.50 0 0 0 7 1 1 2 59
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 41 1 1 1 255
Preface 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 48
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 0 1 1 15 2 3 11 53
RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND 0 0 0 44 1 1 2 225
Research project: A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present 0 0 0 33 0 0 1 161
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 1 120 1 2 5 405
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 0 106 0 2 3 358
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 0 1 33
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 2 2 4 54
Stature and the Standard of Living 3 5 19 811 6 13 55 2,318
THE WEALTH MOBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s 0 0 1 30 2 3 7 385
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 0 3 106 0 3 10 1,204
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 0 1 8 1 1 4 41
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 0 0 0 7 1 1 3 59
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 0 0 0 192 0 0 2 461
Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves 0 0 0 15 1 1 2 46
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 0 2 43
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 8 104
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 0 0 4 255
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 0 0 24 1 1 1 165
Total Journal Articles 3 6 37 2,583 30 57 206 10,930


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 415
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 3 4 10 255
Total Books 0 0 0 0 4 6 14 670


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 53 1 1 3 130
Conclusions 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 31
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 2 39 1 4 9 145
Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 141
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 1 3 73 0 2 8 251
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 27 1 1 5 121
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 0 1 27 0 0 1 70
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 0 0 0 32 0 1 3 128
Total Chapters 0 1 7 301 3 9 29 1,017


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