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connects those anthropometric measurements with an index of childhood mortality estimated from the censuses of 1900 and 1910 … primarily from the censuses of 1900 and 1910. The results indicate that early childhood mortality was a good (negative …
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connects those anthropometric measurements with an index of childhood mortality estimated from the censuses of 1900 and 1910 … primarily from the censuses of 1900 and 1910. The results indicate that early childhood mortality was a good (negative …
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mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large … substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although …
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mortality on children s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large … substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although …
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The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of … improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first … 1955. Improvement in nutrition and health may account for as much as 30 percent of the growth in conventionally measured …
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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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trends in nutritional status, health, mortality, and the process of aging. The exploitation of these types of data involves … health and mortality. Part three involves the more complex problem of relating socioeconomic and biomedical stress suffered … by individuals early in life to their work levels, health and mortality rates at middle and late ages. The final section …
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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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