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an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions … over the life cycle. We suggest policies to promote child health which are currently outside the boundaries of conventional …
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mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health records of 231 monkeys which were … detrimental long-term effects on health which are not compensated by a normal social environment later in life …
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This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U … early life interventions for promoting health …
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An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks … negative early health shocks at ages 0-3, the other twin sibling who did suffer negative health shocks received RMB 305 more in … terms of health investments, but received RMB 182 less in terms of educational investments in the 12 months prior to the …
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public. A millennial perspective is best obtained from skeletal remains, which depict not only childhood health conditions … but also processes of degeneration that accompany aging and strenuous physical effort. Compiled into an index of health …, data from 23 localities as part of a large collaborative project on the Western Hemisphere reveal diverse health conditions …
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This paper uses height data recorded on Convict Indents to study temporal patterns and regional differences in living standards in pre-famine Ireland. The approach is explicitly comparative and makes use of information from America and other parts of Europe. The Irish attained roughly the 16th...
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owners substantially managed slave health. The short-term evidence shows that weather affected growth via exposure to …
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the level of nutrition and health on economic, social, and demographic behavior. It is based on a set of samples covering …
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We present evidence showing that the course of economic growth and of health, as measured by stature, Body Mass Index … twentieth. To analyze the change in welfare resulting from changes in health, we estimate a Human Development Index and a Borda … Civil War the increase in income was insufficient to compensate for the decline in health, whereas improvements in health …
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of anthropometric measures. Bones are widely available for study and unlike stature, they portray health over the life … widely used in physical anthropology and discusses procedures for summarizing community health in the form of an index …
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