Pitirim A. Sorokin's early contributions to the development of anthropometric history [0.03%]
Pitirim A. Sorokin早期对体质史发展的贡献
Peter A Coclanis
Peter A Coclanis
The genealogy of the field of anthropometric history has received relatively little scholarly attention over the years. This paper discusses the contributions to the development of the field made by sociologist Pitirim A. Sorokin and collea...
The influence of inequality on the standard of living: worldwide anthropometric evidence from the 19th and 20th centuries [0.03%]
不平等对生活水平的影响：来自19世纪和20世纪的全球身高数据证据
Matthias Blum
Matthias Blum
We provide empirical evidence on the existence of the Pigou-Dalton principle. The latter indicates that aggregate welfare is - ceteris paribus - maximized when incomes of all individuals are equalized (and therefore marginal utility from in...
Robert W Fogel,Louis Cain,Joseph Burton et al.
Robert W Fogel et al.
Making use of those Union Army veterans for whom death certificates are available, we compare the conditions with which they were diagnosed by Civil War pension surgeons to the causes of death on the certificates. We divide the data between...
The lunar cycle, sunspots and the frequency of births in Germany, 1920-1989 [0.03%]
1920至1989年德国的月相、太阳黑子与出生率周期关系分析
Thomas K Bauer,Stefan Bender,Jörg Heining et al.
Thomas K Bauer et al.
Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other poten...
W Peter Ward
W Peter Ward
This paper offers new evidence on human stature in south China during the second half of the 19th century and early part of the 20th. It is based on the records kept by the Government of Canada of 97,123 Chinese immigrants who were required...
Giorgio Brunello,Giovanna Labartino
Giorgio Brunello
Southern regions in Italy are characterized by higher overweight rates than Northern and Central regions. This gap is higher for young males than for females. We fully account for the differences in overweight rates with a relatively parsim...
Tiffany L Green
Tiffany L Green
Childhood obesity has become an issue of increasing concern to health researchers and policymakers in the United States. One important chronic health condition linked to obesity is pediatric asthma. Although researchers have speculated that...
The association between adolescent height and student school satisfaction: recent evidence from Catalonia [0.03%]
青春期身高与学生学校满意度之间的关系：来自 Catalonia 的最新证据
Toni Mora
Toni Mora
We examine the relationship between high-school students' height and their self-reported school satisfaction. This relationship is explored on the basis of a survey conducted in 2008 among some 2200 Catalan (Spanish) students. We find a neg...
Intercontinental differences in overweight of adopted Koreans in the United States and Europe [0.03%]
美国和欧洲收养韩国人超重的洲际差异
Stanley Ulijaszek,Daniel Schwekendiek
Stanley Ulijaszek
A greater proportion of the United States (US) population is overweight or obese (with BMI over 25kg/m(2)) relative to all Western European populations, and it might be expected that migrants to either the US or Western Europe would develop...
Comparative Study
Economics and human biology. 2013 Jul;11(3):345-50. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2012.09.001 2013
Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression: child malnutrition in Guatemala [0.03%]
结合分位数回归和有序回归的见解：危地马拉儿童营养不良问题
Stuart Sweeney,Frank Davenport,Kathryn Grace
Stuart Sweeney
Chronic child undernutrition is a persistent problem in developing countries and has been the focus of hundreds of studies where the primary intent is to improve targeting of public health and economic development policies. In national leve...