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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 3 6 10 596
Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States 0 0 0 47 1 7 11 924
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 8 24 28 1,030
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 0 22 1 3 7 98
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 1 1 26 2 6 7 262
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 0 2 5 167
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 0 0 0 80 0 3 8 129
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 0 21 2 9 12 139
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 7 12 199
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 0 0 2 176 6 16 21 1,667
Height and Per Capita Income 0 0 0 308 0 4 10 1,385
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 0 1 112 0 7 15 330
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 4 30 35 586
Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South 0 0 0 49 0 7 11 56
Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 94 1 5 5 1,324
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 318 1 8 12 1,542
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 7 35 43 3,452
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 1 191 2 13 16 2,156
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 0 5 8 1,063
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 2 6 11 173
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 200 6 11 15 1,529
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 0 1 6 8 398
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 107 5 21 30 1,461
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 0 2 4 385
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 92 0 3 11 325
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 1 2 106 3 25 29 1,831
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 0 1 94 1 5 7 551
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 0 1 44 1 5 8 610
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 78 1 7 7 341
Total Working Papers 0 2 12 3,202 59 288 406 24,709


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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 10 269
A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves 0 0 0 16 0 4 7 65
Antebellum Southern White Fertility: A Demographic and Economic Analysis 0 1 1 2 1 5 9 35
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 0 0 41 0 4 5 138
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 0 1 2 32 3 9 13 414
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 0 1 30 3 5 8 156
Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply 0 0 0 1 0 8 10 41
Hard times in 19th-century Sweden: A reply 0 0 0 14 1 4 5 96
Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability 0 0 1 202 2 9 20 810
Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 0 0 0 37 1 2 6 126
Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions 0 0 0 167 8 18 30 720
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 1 4 5 200
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 33 3 6 7 136
In memory of Robert William Fogel 0 0 0 8 0 1 4 44
Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains 0 0 0 59 0 4 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 3 4 35
New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 17 2 5 10 71
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 1 1 1 92 1 4 5 795
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960. By Carl Mosk. Orlando: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 320. $41.50 0 1 1 8 1 2 3 61
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 41 1 5 7 261
Preface 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 49
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 0 0 1 15 1 6 17 60
RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND 0 1 1 45 0 6 8 232
Research project: A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present 0 0 0 33 2 3 4 164
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 0 120 0 1 3 406
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 0 106 1 1 4 359
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 1 1 34
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 6 8 60
Stature and the Standard of Living 0 4 23 821 8 21 61 2,348
THE WEALTH MOBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s 0 0 1 30 0 4 11 390
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 1 4 108 8 41 54 1,250
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 0 0 8 0 2 4 43
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 0 2 2 9 0 3 7 63
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 0 0 0 192 1 4 5 465
Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves 0 0 0 15 1 2 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 5 5 48
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 1 6 105
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 1 5 9 261
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 0 0 24 1 2 3 167
Total Journal Articles 1 12 40 2,604 59 222 389 11,189


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 4 9 13 424
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 3 17 25 272
Total Books 0 0 0 0 7 26 38 696


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 53 0 3 6 133
Conclusions 0 0 0 14 0 3 3 34
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 1 39 0 5 14 153
Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" 0 0 0 36 0 3 4 145
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 73 2 11 17 264
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 27 0 15 17 136
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 0 1 27 0 3 5 74
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 0 0 0 32 0 3 5 132
Total Chapters 0 0 4 301 2 46 71 1,071


Statistics updated 2026-03-04