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Does Working Longer Make People Healthier and Happier?
Calvo, Esteban - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616686
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Height and Social Status in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the height of German youth in the late eighteenth century, and documents the very large differences in height between the lower and upper classes. Shows that the height of the upper class did not decline at the end of the 18th century as did that of the common men.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761409
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The Secular Trend in the Biological Standard of Living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Corrects some of the statistical mistakes of previous studies of the trend in the height of British soldiers in the 18th and 19th centuries. Finds that heights decreased substantially in the late-18th century in keeping with many other findings. The inference is that an incipient Malthusian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761414
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Mathematical Investigations of the Escape from the Malthusian Trap
Komlos, John; Artzrouni, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Proposes an economic-growth model that adheres to the salient features of the European economies during the millennium prior to the Industrial Revolution and shows how the Industrial Revolution, generated by the model, can be conceptualized as an escape from the Malthusian trap.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761418
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Shrinking in a Growing Economy? The Mystery of Physical Stature during the Industrial Revolution
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Reviews the evidence on early-industrial height cycles and shows why the economic transition put downward pressure on the nutritional status of the European and American populations.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463807
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"Population Growth through History and the Escape from the Malthusian Trap: A Homeostatic Simulation Model
Komlos, John; Artzrouni, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Proposes an economic-growth model that adheres to the salient features of the European economies during the millennium prior to the Industrial Revolution and shows how the Industrial Revolution, generated by the model, can be conceptualized as an escape from the Malthusian trap.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463810
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Ein Simulationsmodell der Industriellen Revolution
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Proposes an economic-growth model that adheres to the salient features of the European economies during the millennium prior to the Industrial Revolution and shows how the Industrial Revolution, generated by the model, can be conceptualized as an escape from the Malthusian trap.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463812
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The New World’s Contribution to Food Consumption during the Industrial Revolution
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
The discovery of the New World enabled the nutritional status of the European populations to be maintained sufficiently to avoid a major Malthusian catastrophe as in prior centuries.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403921
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Körpergröße und soziale Stellung von Schülern der Hohen Karlsschule im 18. Jahrhundert
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the height of German youth in the late eighteenth century, and documents the very large differences in height between the lower and upper classes. Shows that the height of the upper class did not decline at the end of the 18th century as did that of the common men.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403929
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Le Statut Nutritionnel des Elèves de L'École Polytechnique
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Abstract: Examines the Physical Stature of The elite students attending the École Polytechnique military academy in the Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403930