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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 body mass, height, and weight : inequality across quantiles

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality's relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...

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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Nighttime lights as a proxy for human development at the local level

Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - 2017

construct local indicators of household wealth, education and health from geo-coded Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 29 …

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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?

Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019

1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture …

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Effects of precipitation on food consumer price inflation

Moessner, Richhild - 2022

We study how precipitation has affected food consumer price inflation (CPI), using dynamic panel estimation of food CPI …. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation on food CPI inflation, and also control for possible nonlinear effects of … temperature. We find that precipitation has significant nonlinear effects on food CPI inflation. The coefficient of food CPI …

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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India

Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …

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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries : a preliminary survey

Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011

The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...

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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation

Tungodden, Bertil - 2001

It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors within our control are partly determined by factors beyond our control. In this paper, we suggest that one plausible view is to keep us responsible for the parts of the...

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Income dependent equivalence scales, inequality, and poverty

Dudel, Christian; Garbuszus, Jan Marvin; Ott, Notburga; … - 2015

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there is strong empirical evidence that equivalence scales in fact are income dependent. This paper explores the consistency of results derived from income independent and income...

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