connects those anthropometric measurements with an index of childhood mortality estimated from the censuses of 1900 and 1910 … primarily from the censuses of 1900 and 1910. The results indicate that early childhood mortality was a good (negative …

The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and rising mortality in the three decades prior to … terms of protein and caloric intake in the mid-nineteenth century. But the mortality environment also appears to have … analyzes the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, mortality conditions, and adult heights …

We investigate age-specific mortality in Britain and the United States since 1950. Neither trends in income nor in … patterns of mortality decline. Patterns of income inequality were similar in both countries, but adult and elderly mortality … rates declined most rapidly during the period when inequality increased. Changes in the rate of mortality decline in the US …

highly correlated with the series on e10 and other measures of mortality. It is estimated that improvements in nutritional … status may have accounted for as much as four-tenths of the secular decline in mortality rates, but nearly all of this effect … was concentrated in the reduction of infant mortality. Additional results include an assessment of the effect of toxic …

e0(10) and other measures of mortality. Third, these correlations are used to estimate the contribution of improvements … in nutritional status (not diet alone but diet net of prior claims) to the decline in mortality in Europe and America … since 1800. Improvements in nutritional status may have accounted for as ifiuch as four tenths of the decline in mortality …

was an excellent predictor of older age mortality from ischemic heart disease or stroke. Changes in frame size explain … roughly three-fifths of the mortality decline among white men between 1915 and 1988 and predict even sharper declines in older … age mortality between 1988 and 2022. Data accompanying this paper can be found at <a href="http://www.nber.org/gould">www.nber.org/gould</a> …