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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Nutrition and Economic Development in Post-Reconstruction South Carolina: an Anthropometric Approach

Komlos, John; Coclanis, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

Examines the height of students who attended The Citadel, the military academy in Charleston in the late-19th and the first half of the 20th century. Shows a long stagnation in the biological standard of living in this part of the South until the 1910s, when it began to increase substantially.

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The Nutritional Status of French Students

Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

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.

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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.

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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.

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Ein Simulationsmodell der Industriellen Revolution

Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

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A Malthusian Episode Revisited: The Height of British and Irish Servants in Colonial America

Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …

Examines the height of runaway indentured and convict servants in Colonial America. Finds that heights decreased substantially at the middle of the 18th century in keeping with many other findings. The inference is that an incipient Malthusian crisis was threatening the United Kingdom, as it did...

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