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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 1 1 586
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 1 1 912
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 0 0 1 1,002
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 1 22 0 1 2 91
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 0 0 25 1 1 1 254
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 0 0 1 162
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 0 0 0 80 0 0 3 121
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 1 21 0 0 1 126
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 2 187
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 0 0 2 174 0 2 7 1,646
Height and Per Capita Income 0 0 1 308 0 0 2 1,375
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 0 1 111 0 0 5 315
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 0 0 2 550
Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 45
Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 94 0 0 0 1,318
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 316 0 1 3 1,530
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 462 1 1 3 3,409
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 0 190 0 0 1 2,140
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 0 0 2 1,055
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 2 2 4 162
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 200 0 1 3 1,514
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 390
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 1 106 0 6 31 1,428
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 0 0 1 381
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 92 0 0 3 313
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 0 1 104 1 2 7 1,802
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 0 1 93 0 0 1 544
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 0 0 43 2 2 2 600
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 78 0 1 2 334
Total Working Papers 0 0 11 3,189 7 22 94 24,292


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A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity 0 1 3 91 1 3 10 258
A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 58
Antebellum Southern White Fertility: A Demographic and Economic Analysis 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 26
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 0 1 40 0 0 3 132
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 0 0 2 30 1 2 5 401
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 0 1 29 0 2 10 148
Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 31
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 2 2 4 200 2 5 20 789
Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 0 2 3 37 2 4 8 119
Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions 0 0 3 167 2 7 21 689
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 0 0 2 195
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 0 0 40
Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains 0 0 1 59 1 1 3 158
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 0 31
New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 1 17 0 0 1 61
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 0 1 1 91 0 1 1 790
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 1 58
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 41 0 0 4 254
Preface 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 48
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 0 0 0 14 0 1 3 43
RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND 0 0 0 44 0 0 0 223
Research project: A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present 0 0 0 33 0 0 1 160
Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History. By James C. Riley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 243. $49.95, cloth; $16.95, paper 1 1 2 120 3 3 11 403
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 2 106 0 0 5 355
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 1 1 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 2 2 52
Stature and the Standard of Living 1 4 24 796 3 17 60 2,280
THE WEALTH MOBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s 0 0 1 29 0 0 4 378
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 0 4 103 1 1 19 1,195
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 1 2 8 0 2 3 39
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 56
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 0 0 2 192 0 1 6 460
Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 44
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 1 1 42
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 3 3 3 99
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 0 1 2 252
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 0 0 24 0 0 1 164
Total Journal Articles 4 12 57 2,558 23 60 216 10,784


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 411
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 1 2 13 247
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 2 23 658


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 52 0 0 3 127
Conclusions 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 31
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 1 1 1 38 1 2 7 138
Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" 0 0 2 36 0 0 7 141
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 1 1 3 71 2 3 9 246
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 0 27 0 2 7 118
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 0 2 26 0 0 3 69
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 0 0 3 32 1 2 6 127
Total Chapters 2 2 13 296 4 9 42 997


Statistics updated 2025-02-05