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An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States

Chernichovsky, Dov - 1979

. Could American mothers, who provide very high protein diets for their children in households at all levels of socioeconomic … provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination … Survey reveals the following: 1. Average nutrient intakes of young children are well above recommended dietary standards …

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Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Zimran, Ariell - 2018

After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832--1860 in the US. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle--a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the US. However, this...

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Political Competition and Economic Performance : Theory and Evidence from the United States

Besley, Timothy - 2005

One of the most cherished propositions in economics is that market competition by and large raises consumer welfare. But whether political competition has similarly virtuous consequences is far less discussed. This paper formulates a model to explain why political competition may enhance...

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The Outlook for U.S. Labor-Quality Growth

Bosler, Canyon - 2016

Over the past 15 years, labor-quality growth has been very strong--defying nearly all earlier projections--and has added around 0.5 percentage points to an otherwise modest U.S. productivity picture. Going forward, labor quality is likely to add considerably less and may even be a drag on...

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Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States

Deryugina, Tatyana - 2014

It is widely hypothesized that incomes in wealthy countries are insulated from environmental conditions because individuals have the resources needed to adapt to their environment. We test this idea in the wealthiest economy in human history. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate...

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Presidents and the U.S. Economy : An Econometric Exploration

Blinder, Alan S. - 2014

The U.S. economy has grown faster--and scored higher on many other macroeconomic metrics--when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican. For many measures, including real GDP growth (on which we concentrate), the performance gap is both large and statistically...

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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2000

in control variables and estimation methods. This inverted U-curve is consistent with a simple political economy model …

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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000

This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...

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The Growth Costs of Malaria

McCarthy, Desmond - 2000

Malaria ranks among the foremost health issues facing tropical countries. In this paper, we explore the determinants of cross-country differences in malaria morbidity, and examine the linkage between malaria and economic growth. Using a classification rule analysis, we confirm the dominant role...

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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run

Jones, Charles I. - 1999

This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...

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