unfavorable harvest shocks in other regions of the world significantly curtail domestic economic activity. The effects are much … agriculture in GDP or lower shares of non-agricultural trade in GDP; that is, characteristics that typically apply to low …

, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net nutrition. Little is known about how weights varied among Mexicans … height and age, two uncontrollable characteristics, indicating that 19th century Mexican current net nutrition varied the …

Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic … current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution and throughout the 19th century, white and black average weights … infectious disease rates were high, Southern current net nutrition was better than elsewhere within the US …

expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life … expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers … in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South …

the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present … nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …