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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 0 2 587
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 0 3 914
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 0 1 2 1,003
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 0 22 0 1 2 92
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 0 0 25 0 0 2 255
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 0 1 2 163
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 0 0 0 80 1 2 2 123
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 1 21 0 1 3 128
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 0 0 187
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 0 0 1 174 0 1 6 1,648
Height and Per Capita Income 0 0 0 308 0 1 4 1,379
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 1 1 112 0 2 4 319
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 1 2 3 553
Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South 0 0 0 49 0 1 1 46
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 0 0 316 0 0 1 1,530
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 0 1 9 3,417
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 1 191 0 1 3 2,143
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 0 1 3 1,057
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 0 2 5 164
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 200 0 0 3 1,514
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 390
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 1 107 0 2 18 1,438
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 1 1 2 382
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 92 1 2 6 316
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 0 1 104 0 0 4 1,802
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 0 0 93 0 1 1 545
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 0 0 43 0 0 4 602
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 0 1 7 3,193 4 24 97 24,350


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A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity 0 1 3 93 1 2 6 261
A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves 0 0 0 16 0 1 3 60
Antebellum Southern White Fertility: A Demographic and Economic Analysis 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 27
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 0 1 41 1 1 2 134
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 0 0 0 30 0 0 2 401
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 0 0 29 0 2 10 150
Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply 0 0 0 1 0 1 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 1 2 13 796
Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 0 0 2 37 0 0 9 123
Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions 0 0 1 167 1 3 19 697
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 0 0 0 195
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 33 0 0 1 129
In memory of Robert William Fogel 0 0 0 8 0 2 2 42
Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains 0 0 0 59 0 1 2 159
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 1 1 1 32
New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 17 0 2 3 64
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 0 0 1 91 0 1 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 0 0 1 58
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 41 0 0 3 254
Preface 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 48
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 1 1 1 15 1 5 9 51
RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND 0 0 0 44 0 0 1 224
Research project: A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present 0 0 0 33 0 1 2 161
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 2 120 0 0 5 403
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 0 106 1 2 3 357
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 0 0 2 52
Stature and the Standard of Living 0 4 21 806 3 13 61 2,308
THE WEALTH MOBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s 0 1 1 30 1 3 5 383
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 2 3 106 2 5 10 1,203
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 0 1 8 0 1 3 40
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 0 0 0 7 0 2 2 58
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 0 0 1 192 0 1 5 461
Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 45
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 2 5 101
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 0 2 4 255
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 0 0 24 0 0 1 164
Total Journal Articles 1 9 42 2,578 13 58 204 10,886


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 414
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 252
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 4 13 666


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 53 0 0 3 129
Conclusions 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 31
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 2 39 3 3 8 144
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 1 1 3 73 2 3 10 251
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 27 0 1 6 120
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 1 1 27 0 1 1 70
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 0 0 0 32 1 1 3 128
Total Chapters 1 2 7 301 6 9 31 1,014


Statistics updated 2025-09-05