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Industrialization and health in historical perspective

Steckel, Richard H. (contributor) - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective

Steckel, Richard H. - 1999

most recent work utilizes average height obtained from military records. Average heights measure a population's history of …

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The Trend of BMI Values of US Adults by Centiles, birth cohorts 1882-1986

Komlos, John - 2010

Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...

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The Trend of Mean BMI Values of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986 Indicates that the Obesity Epidemic Began Earlier than Hitherto Thought

Komlos, John - 2010

The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. In contrast to the prevailing strategies, we estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth...

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Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography

Kim, Sukkoo - 2003

We review historical patterns of economic geography' for the United States from the colonial period to the present day. The analysis is framed in terms of two geographic scales: regions and cities. The compelling reason for studying geographic areas of different scales is that models that...

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Gallman Revisited : Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1870

Atack, Jeremy - 2017

In nineteenth century America, blacksmiths were a fixture in every village, town and city, producing a diverse range of products from axes to wheels and services from repairs to horse-shoeing. In constructing his historical GNP accounts Robert Gallman opted to exclude these "jacks-of-all-trades"...

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Invisible Women : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

Family firms are typically associated with negative characteristics, including lower tendencies towards innovation, a higher risk of failure, and inefficiencies deriving from nepotism among family members, criticisms which are even greater when the company is handed over to a female relative....

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Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts

Hilt, Eric - 2014

This paper analyzes the use of the corporate form among nineteenth-century manufacturing firms in Massachusetts, from newly collected data from 1875. An analysis of incorporation rates across industries reveals that corporations were formed at higher rates among industries in which firm size was...

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Gaining Steam : Incumbent Lock-in and Entrant Leapfrogging

Hornbeck, Richard; Hsu, Shanon; Humlum, Anders; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the long transition from water to steam power in US manufacturing, focusing on early users of mechanical power: lumber and flour mills. Digitizing Census of Manufactures manuscripts for 1850 to 1880, we show that as steam costs declined, manufacturing activity grew faster in counties...

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Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution

Shiue, Carol H. - 2004

Prevailing views suggest the Industrial Revolution began in Europe because markets had gradually become more efficient … compares the actual performance of markets in Europe and China, two regions of the world that were relatively advanced in the … findings suggest that relative levels of market function in China and Europe were similar prior to the Industrial Revolution …

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