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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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Health, height, nutrition, and mortality : evidence on the "Antebellum Puzzle" from union army recruits in the middle of the nineteenth century
Haines, Michael R. (contributor) - 1998 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001594701
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Youths at Nutritional Risk : Malnourished or Misnourished?
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2000
We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … capital production function that summarizes available nutrition information. We find that although many youths suffer from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471075
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471325
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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change
Philipson, Tomas J. - 1999
This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the effects of public interventions on its continued growth. The growth of obesity in a population results from an increase in calorie consumption relative to physical activity. Yet in developed countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471358
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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616580
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Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700 : Some Additional Preliminary Findings
Fogel, Robert W. - 1986
This paper is an extensive revision and expansion of Working Paper No.1402. It centers on a new time series of life expectations in the U.S. since 1720, which has been constructed from the NBER/CPE pilot sample of genealogies. Native-born Americans achieved remarkably long life expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477275
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Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700 : Some Preliminary Findings
Fogel, Robert W. - 1984
This paper uses the data in the NBER/CPE pilot sample of genealogies to create a new time series on life expectation in the U.S. since 1720. After attaining remarkably high levels toward the end of the eighteenth century, life expectation as measured by e0(10) began a decline that lasted about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477687
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An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States
Chernichovsky, Dov - 1979
provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination …
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Colonial and Revolutionary Muster Rolls : Some New Evidence on Nutrition and Migration in Early America
Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 1979
on education, many scholars have also directed attention to the significance of improvements in nutrition. Until recently … nutrition from height-by-age data. This paper employs a relatively underutilized type of historical document to investigate the … level of nutrition in early America. The same material also provides a rich source of information about patterns of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478774