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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 0 3 4 590
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 5 7 919
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 5 8 9 1,011
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 0 22 1 3 5 96
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 0 0 25 0 0 3 256
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 1 3 4 166
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 0 0 0 80 1 4 6 127
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 0 21 0 2 4 130
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 7 8 195
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 0 1 2 176 3 5 8 1,654
Height and Per Capita Income 0 0 0 308 2 3 8 1,383
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 0 1 112 3 5 11 326
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 4 7 10 560
Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South 0 0 0 49 0 3 4 49
Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 94 1 1 2 1,320
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective 0 1 2 318 2 4 6 1,536
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 3 3 12 3,420
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 1 191 5 5 8 2,148
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 1 2 4 1,059
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 3 6 10 170
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 200 0 3 4 1,518
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 394
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 1 107 8 9 20 1,448
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 0 1 2 383
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 92 2 7 11 324
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 0 1 105 13 16 18 1,819
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 0 1 94 2 2 4 548
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 1 1 44 1 4 8 606
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 78 2 2 2 336
Total Working Papers 0 3 11 3,200 70 127 206 24,491


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A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity 0 0 2 93 0 2 6 263
A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves 0 0 0 16 1 2 4 62
Antebellum Southern White Fertility: A Demographic and Economic Analysis 0 0 0 1 2 4 6 32
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 0 1 41 1 1 3 135
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 1 2 2 32 4 7 9 409
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 1 1 30 1 2 4 152
Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply 0 0 0 1 3 4 5 36
Hard times in 19th-century Sweden: A reply 0 0 0 14 0 1 1 92
Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability 0 0 4 202 2 7 16 803
Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 0 0 0 37 1 2 8 125
Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions 0 0 0 167 4 8 19 706
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 0 1 1 196
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 33 1 2 2 131
In memory of Robert William Fogel 0 0 0 8 0 1 3 43
Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains 0 0 0 59 1 1 4 161
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 0 1 32
New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 17 1 3 6 67
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 0 0 0 91 3 3 4 794
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960. By Carl Mosk. Orlando: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 320. $41.50 0 0 0 7 0 1 2 59
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 41 0 2 2 256
Preface 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 49
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 0 0 1 15 1 4 12 55
RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND 1 1 1 45 5 7 8 231
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 0 1 5 405
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 0 106 0 0 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 1 3 4 55
Stature and the Standard of Living 3 12 25 820 8 23 58 2,335
THE WEALTH MOBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s 0 0 1 30 1 4 9 387
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 1 4 107 9 14 24 1,218
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 0 0 8 2 3 4 43
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 2 2 2 9 2 4 6 62
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 0 0 0 192 1 1 2 462
Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves 0 0 0 15 0 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 0 8 104
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 1 2 5 257
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 0 0 24 0 1 1 165
Total Journal Articles 7 19 45 2,599 56 123 262 11,023


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 418
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 6 9 15 261
Total Books 0 0 0 0 9 13 22 679


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 53 1 2 4 131
Conclusions 0 0 0 14 1 1 1 32
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 2 39 2 6 13 150
Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" 0 0 0 36 1 2 2 143
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 3 73 4 6 13 257
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 27 9 10 12 130
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 0 1 27 1 2 3 72
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 0 0 0 32 0 1 3 129
Total Chapters 0 0 7 301 19 30 51 1,044


Statistics updated 2026-01-09