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highly correlated with the series on e10 and other measures of mortality. It is estimated that improvements in nutritional … status may have accounted for as much as four-tenths of the secular decline in mortality rates, but nearly all of this effect … was concentrated in the reduction of infant mortality. Additional results include an assessment of the effect of toxic …
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e0(10) and other measures of mortality. Third, these correlations are used to estimate the contribution of improvements … in nutritional status (not diet alone but diet net of prior claims) to the decline in mortality in Europe and America … since 1800. Improvements in nutritional status may have accounted for as ifiuch as four tenths of the decline in mortality …
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Economists and other scholars have long sought to measure and analyze long-term trends and differences in social performance. Average stature supplements and lengthens data series on traditional measures of life expectancy and real GDP per capita. This paper presents a methodology for using...
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was an excellent predictor of older age mortality from ischemic heart disease or stroke. Changes in frame size explain … roughly three-fifths of the mortality decline among white men between 1915 and 1988 and predict even sharper declines in older … age mortality between 1988 and 2022. Data accompanying this paper can be found at <a href="http://www.nber.org/gould">www.nber.org/gould</a> …
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This paper sketches a theory of the secular decline in morbidity and mortality that takes account of changes in human …
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We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … capital production function that summarizes available nutrition information. We find that although many youths suffer from …
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This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the effects of public interventions on its continued growth. The growth of obesity in a population results from an increase in calorie consumption relative to physical activity. Yet in developed countries,...
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nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying …
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provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination …
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factors besides nutrition were important in accounting for the dramatic changes in U.S. mortality rates during the nineteenth … on education, many scholars have also directed attention to the significance of improvements in nutrition. Until recently … nutrition from height-by-age data. This paper employs a relatively underutilized type of historical document to investigate the …
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