Body mass, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century: joining the debate surrounding equality and health [0.03%]
十九世纪的体重、财富和不平等：加入关于平等与健康之争的讨论
Scott Alan Carson
Scott Alan Carson
We explore relationships among BMI variation, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century US. There was an inverse relationship between BMI and average state-level wealth and a small, inverse relationship with wealth inequality. After contro...
Sibling composition during childhood and adult blood pressure among native Amazonians in Bolivia [0.03%]
玻利维亚亚马逊土著人群中的兄弟姐妹构成与成人血压的关系
Wu Zeng,Eduardo A Undurraga,Colleen Nyberg et al.
Wu Zeng et al.
Sibling configuration, including birth order, or the number, age, and sex of siblings is associated with parental resource allocation between children and is thus associated with a person's well-being. Little is known about the association ...
Comparative Study
Economics and human biology. 2013 Jul;11(3):391-400. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2012.08.002 2013
Crisis-induced depression, physical activity and dietary intake among young adults: evidence from the 9/11 terrorist attacks [0.03%]
“9·11”恐怖袭击事件对年轻人抑郁、体力活动和饮食的影响
Yang Wang,Muzhe Yang
Yang Wang
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we provide evidence that young adults respond to crisis-induced depression by exercising less and having breakfast less often. Exogenous variation in the crisis-induced d...
The association of adolescent socioeconomic position and adult height: variation across racial/ethnic groups [0.03%]
种族/族裔群体中社会经济地位与成人身高的关系：青少年的社会经济地位与成年人身高的关联在不同种族/族裔群体中的差异
Tracy K Richmond,Courtney E Walls,S V Subramanian
Tracy K Richmond
Numerous studies have demonstrated the association of childhood socioeconomic position and adult height. Many have suggested the use of adult height as a marker of overall childhood well-being. However, few studies have examined the relatio...
Matteo Manfredini,Marco Breschi,Alessio Fornasin et al.
Matteo Manfredini et al.
This study examines the role of height in the process of mate selection in two Italian populations at the turn of the twentieth century, Alghero, in the province of Sassari, and Treppo Carnico, in the province of Udine. Based on a linkage b...
Maternal bereavement: the heightened mortality of mothers after the death of a child [0.03%]
丧子之痛：失去孩子的母亲死亡率升高
Javier Espinosa,William N Evans
Javier Espinosa
Using a 9-year follow-up of 69,224 mothers aged 20-50 from the National Longitudinal Mortality Survey, we investigate whether there is heightened mortality of mothers after the death of a child. Results from Cox proportional hazard models i...
Sven E Wilson
Sven E Wilson
A large body of literature argues that marriage promotes health and increases longevity. But do these benefits extend to maintaining a healthy body weight, as the economic theory of health investment suggests they should? They do not. Using...
Maternal employment and childhood obesity: a search for mechanisms in time use data [0.03%]
母亲就业与儿童肥胖：时间利用数据中的机制研究
John Cawley,Feng Liu
John Cawley
A substantial body of research documents that maternal employment is associated with childhood obesity. This paper explores possible mechanisms for that correlation in the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). We find that maternal employment is...
Catching up from early nutritional deficits? Evidence from rural Ethiopia [0.03%]
弥补早期营养不足的损失吗——来自埃塞俄比亚农村的证据
Ingo Outes,Catherine Porter
Ingo Outes
We examine the nutritional status of a cohort of poor Ethiopian children and their patterns of catch-up growth in height-for-age between three key development stages: age one, five and eight. We use ordinary least squares (within community)...
Indonesian regional welfare development, 1900-1990: new anthropometric evidence [0.03%]
印度尼西亚地区福利发展（1900-1990）：新的体质证据
Peter Foldvari,Bas van Leeuwen,Daan Marks et al.
Peter Foldvari et al.
The study of heights provides a promising approach to a better understanding of the biological welfare of countries and regions for which conventional economic data are relatively sparse. This paper is based on a dataset previously unexploi...