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A female-male net nutrition comparison using differences-in-decompositions : late 19th and early 20th century social feminism and women's suffrage

Carson, Scott Alan - 2019

When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the body mass index (BMI) is a biological measure that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-indecompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs varied with the advent of early 20th century social...

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Assessing cumulative net nutrition and the transition from 19th century bound to free-labor by ethnic status

Carson, Scott Alan - 2017

Average stature reflects cumulative net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces a difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African-American cumulative net nutrition was comparable to working class whites, it was made worse-off with...

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The 19th century net nutrition transition from free to bound labor : a difference-in-decompositions approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2018

The body mass index (BMI) reflects current net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces a difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African-American current net nutrition was comparable to working class whites, it was made worse-off...

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Late 19th and early 20th century urban net nutrition by gender and race

Carson, Scott Alan - 2023

Individuals urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural living conditions. Body mass, height, and weight are welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Nineteenth and early...

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A post bellum paradox : net nutrition variation by socioeconomic status, gender and race in the late 19th century

Carson, Scott Alan - 2024

When traditional measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, body mass, height, and weight are complements to standard income and wealth measures. A persistent question in welfare studies is the 19th century's 2nd and 3rd quarter's stature diminution, a pattern known as the...

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What Do the Bingers Drink? Microeconometric Evidence on Negative Externatilities of Alcohol Consumption by Beverage Types

Srivastava, Preety; Zhao, Xueyan - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2010

The recent debate on alcohol tax reform and recommendations from the Henry Tax Review in Australia have highlighted the need for quantifying externalities of excessive alcohol consumption by beverage types. This paper presents micro-level information from the Australian National Drug Strategy...

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Empirical Data Analysis of HIV/AIDS in Sudan with Reference to Khartoum State

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011

. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS … is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early 1980s, AIDS has rapidly established itself throughout the world …, and is likely to endure and persist well into the 21s century. AIDS has evolved from a mysterious illness to a global …

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AIDS and dualism : Ethiopiaś burden under rational expectations

Bell, Clive; Koukoumelis, Anastasios - 2009

An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … socially very profitable. -- HIV/AIDS ; Growth ; Dualism ; Ethiopia …

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Modeling the Macroeconomic Impact of Hiv/Aids

Haacker, Markus - 2021

The paper addresses the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita output and income, with particular emphasis on the role of … finds that HIV/AIDS affects both the supply of labor and the demand for labor in the formal sector. Only if there is a … HIV/AIDS on output is complemented by an assessment of the impact on income …

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The role of the household and community in determining child health

Mani, Subha - 2007

Nutritional status at a young age is positively associated with an individual’s total human capital accumulated. Higher levels of human capital are in turn strongly correlated with an individual’s economic and social well-being. Health is one such dimension of human capital and improvements...

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