the physical environment. This study evaluates 19th century macro-level nutrition and diseases associated with US BMI … effect on net-nutrition than cholera. After controlling for nutrition and disease, black BMIs and weights were greater than …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at … ages 0-12 and this effect is mediated by paternal education. …

individual's working hours and educational attainment. A lottery win among low education individuals decreases the risk of …

When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI …) are now well-accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development. To date, there is no study that … decreased the relative price of food, increased net nutrition, and was associated with higher BMIs. …

. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and …

In migration studies, immigrant health is a concern before, during, and after migration. This study uses a large late … 19th and early 20th century data set of over 20 US prisons to assess migrant net nutrition. Native-born individuals were …

decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …

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 …

Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi …-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related …