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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the...

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Nineteenth century black and mulatto physical activity, calories, and life expectancy

Carson, Scott Alan - 2014

Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study considers how black and mulatto basal metabolic rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition declined during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007

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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey - 2010

expansion in female sports participation by using variation in the level of boys' athletic participation across states before … changes between pre- and post-cohorts reveals that a 10-percentage point rise in state-level female sports participation … participation. Furthermore, greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male …

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Can vertical specialization explain the growth of world trade?

Yi, Kei-mu - 2000

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Skill policies for Scotland

Heckman, James J. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. Targeted early...

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Exploring the international linkages of the euro area : a global VAR analysis

Dées, Stéphane; Di Mauro, Filippo; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2005

This paper presents a global model linking individual country vector error-correcting models in which the domestic variables are related to the country-specific variables as an approximate solution to a global common factor model. This global VAR is estimated for 26 countries, the euro area...

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Structural econometric estimation of the basic reproduction number for Covid-19 across U.S. states and selected countries

Johnsson, Ida; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Yang, Cynthia Fan - 2023

This paper proposes a structural econometric approach to estimating the basic reproduction number (R0) of Covid-19. This approach identifies R0 in a panel regression model by filtering out the effects of mitigating factors on disease diffusion and is easy to implement. We apply the method to...

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Roots of cultural diversity

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2024

expressions within an increasingly interconnected world; and (iii) the roots of variations in societal adaptability to evolving …

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Do deep trade agreements' provisions actually increase - or decrease - trade and/or FDI?

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Paniagua, Jordi - 2024

provisions in DTAs on trade using the World Bank’s DTA database remains in its infancy. While this database categorizes … ex post evidence that (the World Bank’s) “liberalizations” can have positive or negative effects on trade and …

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