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A population's average stature reflects cumulative net nutrition and changing long-run economic conditions facing women …’s economic opportunity, inequality, and net nutrition during development. This study uses stature as a measure for cumulative net … nutrition to show how female and male statures varied around the US Civil War. Male statures and net nutrition decreased more …
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statures, indicating there was a willingness-to-accept poorer cumulative urban health and net nutrition in exchange for urban …
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lower weights than rural residents. Urban net nutrition varied by race, and urban whites and blacks had lower BMIs, shorter … statures, and lower weights compared to their rural counterparts. Urban male net nutrition experienced greater variation than …
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movements may have affected farmer and non-farmer's net nutrition. Despite 19th and early 20th century US political movements …
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nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …
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We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...
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effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our …
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. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …
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There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
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