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Health, Human Capital, and African American Migration Before 1910

Logan, Trevon D. - 2008

This is the first paper to document the effect of health on the migration propensities of African Americans in the … literacy and health on the migration propensities of African Americans from 1870 to 1910. I find that literacy and health … shocks were strong predictors of migration and the stock of health was not. There were differential selection propensities …

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Does Money Protect Health Status? Evidence from South African Pensions

Case, Anne - 2001

The channels by which better health leads to higher income, and those by which higher income protects health status, are of interest to both researchers and policy makers. In general, quantifying the impact of income on health is difficult, given the simultaneous determination of health and...

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Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 1985

This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period. The slave work routine was arduous overall and particularily intense during...

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Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood : Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves

Steckel, Richard H. - 2004

For over a quarter century anthropometric historians have struggled to identify and measure the numerous factors that affect adult stature, which depends upon diet, disease and physical activity from conception to maturity. I simplify this complex problem by assessing nutritional status in a...

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Agricultural Fires and Infant Health

Rangel, Marcos A. - 2016

Fire has long served as a tool in agriculture, but this practice's human capital consequences have proved difficult to study. Drawing on data from satellites, air monitors, and vital records, we study how smoke from sugarcane harvest fires affects infant health in the Brazilian state that...

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Tuskegee and the Health of Black Men

Alsan, Marcella - 2016

For forty years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively monitored hundreds of adult black males with syphilis despite the availability of effective treatment. The study's methods have become synonymous with exploitation and mistreatment by the medical profession. To...

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Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective : A Brief Introduction

Boustan, Leah - 2014

The United States has a long and ongoing history of racial inequality. This paper surveys the literature on one aspect of that history: long-run trends in racial differences in health. We focus on standard measures such as infant mortality and life expectancy but also consider the available data...

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Amidst Poverty and Prejudice : Black and Irish Civil War Veterans

Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013

This study examines a wide range of health and economic outcomes in a sample of Irish- and African-American Civil War veterans during the postbellum period. The information in our data is from a variety of circumstances across an individual's life span, and we use that to attempt to explain...

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Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers

Lee, Chulhee - 2009

This paper investigates patterns of socioeconomic difference in the wartime morbidity and mortality of black Union Army soldiers. Among the factors that contributed to a lower probability of contracting and dying from diseases were (1) lighter skin color, (2) a non-field occupation, (3)...

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Race Differences in Labor Force Attachment and Disability Status

Bound, John - 1996

We use the first wave of the Health and Retirement Survey to study the effect of health on the labor force activity of Black and White men and women in their 50s. The evidence we present confirms the notion that health is an extremely important determinant of early labor force exit. Our...

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