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Mexican and Hispanic net nutrition in the 19th century American West
Carson, Scott Alan - 2015
When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374201
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Statures, BMIs, and weight : a reassessment
Carson, Scott A. - 2013
decreases, and the two have different implications for human health. An alternative measure for net current biological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223384
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Gender inequality in nutrition intake : evidence from a large assistance program
Wang, Qing; Zhang, Shiying - 2020
several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391116
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Hungry children age faster
Abeliansky, Ana Lucia; Strulik, Holger - 2017
waves of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset and construct a health deficit index. Results … from log-linear regressions suggest that, on average, elderly European men and women developed about 20 percent more health … suggesting that health deficits in old age are up to 40 percent higher for children suffering from hunger. The wedge of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722162
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Parental migration decisions and child health outcomes : evidence from China
Lin, Carl; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2018
This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 and 2009 to examine how parental migration decisions are associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951041
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Social disadvantage and children's nutritional status in rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2020
This article uses an innovative rural-urban migrant survey to assess how social disadvantage is associated with children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of household registration (designed to limit domestic migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316776
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Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital
Schultz, T. Paul - 2002
Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369244
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Nineteenth century weight in the United States : revaluating net nutrition during economic development
Carson, Scott Alan - 2015
Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334236
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010375168
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Food prices and overweight patterns in Italy
Pieroni, Luca; Lanari, Donatella; Salmasi, Luca - 2010
In this paper we examine the role of relative food prices in determining the recent increase in body weight in Italy. Cross-price elasticities of unhealthy and healthy foods estimated by a demand system provide a consistent framework to evaluate substitution effects, when a close association is...
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