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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 …
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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> …
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The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and pos mortality in the three decades prior to the … the mortality environment a have worsened (or at least did not improve), connected with factors such as urba …, mortality was not improving in the antebellum period and was deterio York City. For the United States and for New York State …
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Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...
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Democracy is not an absorbing state; transitions to autocratic rule have been frequent throughout history and often followed periods of instability under democratic rule. In this paper, we ask whether autocrats can win support among voters by showcasing their ability to restore order and to "get...
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Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to the literature exploring the "dark side" of social capital, examining the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We collect new data on the density of associations in 229 German towns...
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How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...
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This paper provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the long-run growth in weight over time. We argue that technological change has induced weight growth by making home- and market-production more sedentary and by lowering food prices through agricultural innovation. We analyze how...
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