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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 1 1 24 611
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 13 927
Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 0 87 5 29 114 1,117
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 1 23 0 0 9 102
Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves 0 0 1 26 0 4 18 274
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 58 1 1 9 172
Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare 0 0 1 81 1 2 15 138
Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves 0 0 0 21 0 1 41 169
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 2 3 22 210
Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices, and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves 0 0 0 32 1 3 19 157
Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe 0 0 2 177 1 3 47 1,696
Height and Per Capita Income 0 0 1 309 0 6 21 1,401
Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability 0 0 0 112 1 1 17 338
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions 0 0 0 148 4 12 76 629
Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South 0 0 0 49 0 0 11 57
Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 94 1 1 12 1,331
Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective 0 0 1 318 0 1 21 1,553
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 0 463 0 1 49 3,466
Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research 0 0 0 191 0 35 56 2,199
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 49 1 3 16 1,073
Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions 0 0 0 32 0 3 15 179
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 1 2 202 0 2 21 1,536
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 2 13 403
Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland 0 1 1 108 3 6 51 1,490
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America 0 0 0 65 0 0 13 395
The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 92 1 1 9 326
The Great Divergence and Convergence of Stature in Eurasia: Trends and Economic Correlates over the Last Eight Millennia 2 21 23 23 6 15 18 18
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 0 0 2 107 1 9 52 1,855
Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses 0 0 0 94 1 1 8 554
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey 0 0 1 44 0 0 17 619
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 78 0 1 11 345
Total Working Papers 2 23 36 3,265 31 147 838 25,340


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A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity 0 0 0 93 2 6 25 286
A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves 0 0 0 16 0 2 7 67
Antebellum Southern White Fertility: A Demographic and Economic Analysis 0 0 1 2 0 5 21 49
Biological Measures of Economic History 0 0 1 42 0 1 8 142
Biological Measures of the Standard of Living 0 0 2 32 0 8 25 427
Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves 0 0 1 30 0 1 15 165
Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 9
Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply 0 0 0 1 1 1 10 42
Hard times in 19th-century Sweden: A reply 0 0 0 14 1 1 11 102
Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability 0 0 1 203 0 11 41 837
Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 1 1 1 38 1 2 7 130
Heights and human welfare: Recent developments and new directions 0 0 1 168 0 12 55 753
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period 0 0 0 93 0 0 10 205
Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 0 0 0 33 1 3 15 144
In memory of Robert William Fogel 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 44
Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains 0 0 0 59 0 1 7 167
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 5 37
New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade 0 0 2 19 1 1 18 82
New Perspectives on the Standard of Living 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 16
Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden 0 0 3 94 0 1 12 803
Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960. By Carl Mosk. Orlando: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 320. $41.50 0 0 1 8 0 0 6 64
Personal Performance 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 0 0 0 41 0 0 9 263
Preface 0 0 0 9 0 0 3 51
Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions 1 1 1 16 1 2 25 76
RISING INEQUALITY: TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH IN INDUSTRIALIZING NEW ENGLAND 0 0 1 45 0 1 10 234
Research project: A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present 0 0 1 34 0 0 7 168
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 1 121 0 0 6 410
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests 0 0 0 106 0 0 4 362
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 6 39
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 9 61
Stature and the Standard of Living 2 5 23 831 5 13 73 2,385
THE WEALTH MOBILITY OF MEN AND WOMEN DURING THE 1960s AND 1970s 0 0 0 30 0 1 9 392
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century 1 2 8 114 6 13 122 1,326
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 48
The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 0 0 2 9 0 1 11 69
The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century 0 1 2 194 0 2 11 472
Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves 0 0 0 15 0 0 3 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 2 8 51
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 5 109
What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians, and Other Social Scientists? 0 0 0 56 1 4 12 267
Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: Skeletal evidence 0 0 1 25 0 2 8 172
Total Journal Articles 5 10 54 2,636 22 100 663 11,577


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Health and Welfare during Industrialization 0 0 0 0 1 2 15 429
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present 0 0 0 0 2 2 33 285
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 4 48 714


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Anthropometrics 0 0 1 2 1 2 11 26
Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 53 0 0 7 136
Conclusions 0 0 0 14 0 2 6 37
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States 0 0 0 39 0 1 16 160
Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" 0 0 0 36 0 0 5 146
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 0 73 1 2 20 271
Robert W. Fogel (1926–2013) 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 9
Slavery and Discrimination 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 18
Stature and Living Standards in the United States 0 0 1 28 0 0 24 144
The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension Among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 8
The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses 0 0 0 27 0 1 13 83
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! 1 1 1 33 1 1 8 136
Total Chapters 1 1 3 306 3 9 120 1,174


Statistics updated 2026-10-11