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Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States

Craig, Lee A. - 1997

hypothesis that adult height is positively correlated with the local production of nutrition in infancy. We test the hypothesis …

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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living : Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

Haines, Michael R. - 2000

This paper examines variations in stature and the Body Mass Index (BMI) across space for the United States in 1917/18, using published data on the measurement of approximately 890,000 recruits for the American Army for World War I. It also connects those anthropometric measurements with an index...

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"Development, Health, Nutrition, and Mortality : The Case of the 'Antebellum Puzzle' in the United States"

Haines, Michael R. - 2000

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and rising mortality in the three decades prior to the American Civil War (1861-65). It is labeled a puzzle, since this period was one of rapid economic growth and development in the United States. Much of the debate regarding...

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The Tallest in the World : Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century

Prince, Joseph M. - 1998

Historians often portray Native Americans as merely unfortunate victims of European disease and aggression, with lives in disarray that followed the arrival of Columbus and other explorers or conquerors. The data we analyze on human stature show, in contrast, that some Native Americans such as...

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Health, Height, Nutrition, and Mortality : Evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from Union Army Recruits in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Haines, Michael R. - 1998

). Although, New York State's agriculture was rapidly co in this era and specializing in dairy products, its nutrition may have …

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Health, Height and Welfare : Britain 1700-1980

Floud, Roderick - 1996

This paper reviews the evidence regarding the main trends in the height of the British population since the early eighteenth century. We argue that the average heights of successive birth cohorts of British males increased slowly between the middle of the eighteenth century and the first quarter...

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New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging

Fogel, Robert William - 1993

The aim of this paper is to describe the full dimensions of a new and rapidly growing research program that uses new data sources on food consumption, anthropometric measures, genealogies, and life-cycle histories to shed light on secular trends in nutritional status, health, mortality, and the...

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Tall But Poor : Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland

Nicolas, S. - 1992

This paper uses height data recorded on Convict Indents to study temporal patterns and regional differences in living standards in pre-famine Ireland. The approach is explicitly comparative and makes use of information from America and other parts of Europe. The Irish attained roughly the 16th...

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The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America : Timing and Mechanisms

Fogel, Robert William - 1990

1955. Improvement in nutrition and health may account for as much as 30 percent of the growth in conventionally measured …

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Economics of research and innovation in agriculture

Moser, Petra (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Research and … - 2021

--Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and …

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