Carson, Scott Alan.  Body mass, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century: Joining the debate surrounding equality and health // Economics and Human Biology. January 2013. Vol. 11. Issue 1. P. 90—94. 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 controlling for wealth and inequality, farmers had greater BMI values than workers in other occupations, and blacks had greater BMI values because of nutritional deprivation in utero. Выводы: 1) There was an inverse relationship between BMI and average state-level wealth and a small, inverse relationship with wealth inequality. 2) After controlling for wealth and inequality, farmers had greater BMI values than workers in other occupations. 3) Blacks had greater BMI values because of nutritional deprivation in utero.

Floud R., Fogel R., Harris B., Hong S.C. The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700, (2011). Lee Craig’s Review: Economics and Human Biology. January 2013. Vol. 11. Issue 1. P. 113-116.

Blum, Matthias. The influence of inequality on the standard of living: Worldwide anthropometric evidence from the 19th and 20th centuries // Economics and Human Biology. December 2013. Vol. 11. Issue 4. P. 436—452. 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 income is as well). Using anthropometric panel data on 101 countries during the 19th and 20th centuries, we determine that there is a systematic negative and concave relationship between height inequality and average height. The robustness of this relationship is tested by means of several robustness checks, including two instrument variable regressions. These findings help to elucidate the impact of economic inequality on welfare. Выводы: 1) This paper sets out to provide empirical evidence on the existence of the Pigou–Dalton principle. 2) Our empirical results indicate that height inequality is negatively correlated with average height. 3) The robustness of this relationship is tested by performing several robustness checks, including two instrument variable regressions. 4) Starting in the 1940s the negative influence of inequality increases.

Song, Shige.  Identifying the intergenerational effects of the 1959–1961 Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine on infant mortality // Economics and Human Biology. December 2013. Vol. 11. Issue 4. P. 474—487. Using the 1959–1961 Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine as a natural experiment, this study examines the relationship between mothers’ prenatal exposure to acute malnutrition and their children’s infant mortality risk. According to the results, the effect of mothers’ prenatal famine exposure status on children’s infant mortality risk depends on the level of famine severity. In regions of low famine severity, mothers’ prenatal famine exposure significantly reduces children’s infant mortality, whereas in regions of high famine severity, such prenatal exposure increases children’s infant mortality although the effect is not statistically significant. Such a curvilinear relationship between mothers’ prenatal malnutrition status and their children’s infant mortality risk is more complicated than the linear relationship predicted by the original fetal origins hypothesis but is consistent with the more recent developmental origins of health and disease theory. Выводы: 1) Mothers’ prenatal famine exposure has significant effects on children’s infant mortality risk. 2) In regions of low famine severity, mothers’ prenatal exposure reduced children’ infant mortality risk. 3) In regions of high severity, such exposure increased children’s infant mortality risk. 4) These findings support the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis.

Ward, W. Peter.  Stature, migration and human welfare in South China, 1850–1930 // Economics and Human Biology. December 2013. Vol. 11. Issue 4. P. 488—501. 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 to pay an entry tax between 1885 and 1949. While the study population included both sexes and all ages from infancy to old age, it was largely male, with most ages falling between 12 and 50. The data reveal an increase of over 4 cm in the adult heights of both sexes between 1850 and 1930. They also indicate an upward trend of over 5 cm in the heights of adolescent males. The mean heights of male immigrants fall in the lower range of those reported in other studies of stature in south China. The rising trends contrast with a pattern of stagnation and decline reported in other recent findings but are consistent with other recent evidence of increasing economic growth, real wages, and life expectancy in south China during this period. One likely cause of improved well-being is the influence of the migrants’ remittances on socioeconomic change in south China. Выводы: 1) New evidence on human stature and well-being in south China, 1850–1930.  2) A sample of 97,000 Chinese immigrants to Canada, 1885 to 1949, largely male and ages 12–50. 3) An increase of over 4 cm in the adult heights of both sexes, 1850–1930. 4) An increase of over 5 cm in the heights of adolescent males. 5) One likely cause of improved stature and well-being is the influence of migrant remittances on socioeconomic change in south China.

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    Economics & Human Biology, Volume 7, Issue 2 , Pages 133-270 (July 2009)
    1. Editorial Board
    Page CO2
    Regular Articles
    2. Life at the top: The benefits of height
    Pages 133-136
    Angus Deaton, Raksha Arora
    According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index daily poll of the US population, taller people live better lives, at least on average. They evaluate their lives more favorably, and they are more likely to report a range of positive emotions such as enjoyment and happiness. They are also less likely to report a range of negative experiences, like sadness, and physical pain, though they are more likely to experience stress and anger, and if they are women, to worry. These findings cannot be attributed to different demographic or ethnic characteristics of taller people, but are almost entirely explained by the positive association between height and both income and education, both of which are positively linked to better lives.
    3. Height, wealth, and health: An overview with new data from three longitudinal studies
    Pages 137-152
    G. David Batty, Martin J. Shipley, David Gunnell, Rachel Huxley, Mika Kivimaki, Mark Woodward, Crystal Man Ying Lee, George Davey Smith
    This overview, based on a literature review and new data from the three cohorts (Whitehall Studies I and II, and the Vietnam Experience Study), has four objectives: (a) to outline the major determinants of height, so providing an indication as to what exposures this characteristic may capture; (b) to summarise, by reviewing reports from large scale studies, the relation between adult height and a range of disease outcomes – both somatic and psychiatric – with particular emphasis on coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke; (c) to discuss why these relationships may exist, in particular, the role, if any, of socioeconomic position in explaining the apparent associations; and, finally (d) to outline future research directions in this field.
    The large majority of evidence for predictors of height, and its health consequences, comes from observational studies. While genetic predisposition is a major determinant of height, secular rises in childhood and adult stature across successive birth cohorts suggest that early life environment also has an important impact. Plausible non-genetic determinants of height include nutrition, illness, socioeconomic status, and psychosocial stress. Evidence for an association between height and a series of health endpoints is accumulating. Thus, shorter people appear to experience increased risk of CHD, and these associations appear to be independent of socioeconomic position and other potentially confounding variables. For stroke, and its sub-types, findings are less clear. In contrast to CHD, some cancers, such as carcinoma of the colorectum, prostate, breast (in women), central nervous system, skin, endometrium, thyroid and blood (haematopoietic) are more common in taller people. While height may be negatively related to the risk of completed suicide, conclusions about the links between stature and other health endpoints is problematic given the paucity of evidence, which should be addressed.
    Ultimately, for want of better data, investigators in this area have used height as a proxy for a range of pre-adult exposures. In future, research should aim to explore the predictive capacity of direct measures of diet, psychosocial stress, childhood chronic illness and so on, rather than focus on height or its components. The problem is that extended follow-up of child cohorts with such data are required, and studies which hold these data are not currently available, although several are either maturing to the point where they offer sufficient clinical outcomes to facilitate analyses or are in the advanced planning stage.
    4. Obesity and labor market outcomes among legal immigrants to the United States from developing countries
    Pages 153-164
    John Cawley, Euna Han, Edward C. Norton
    5. Protein supply and nutritional status in nineteenth century Bavaria, Prussia and France
    Pages 165-180
    Joerg Baten
    What determined regional height differences in the 19th century? We compare anthropometric evidence with production estimates of different food products and other economic variables. To this end, we concentrate on 179 rural regions and 29 towns in Bavaria (Southeast Germany). This regionally disaggregated level of analysis enables us to study the influence of the local supply of different food products on the nutritional status of the population, among which milk turned out particularly important. This result is tested and confirmed with regional data from Prussia and France.
    6. Weight gain in adolescents and their peers
    Pages 181-190
    Timothy J. Halliday, Sally Kwak
    Despite the urgent public health implications, relatively little is yet known about the effect of peers on adolescent weight gain. We describe trends and features of adolescent BMI in a nationally representative dataset and document correlations in weight gain among peers. We find b correlations between own body mass index (BMI) and peers’ BMI’s. Though the correlations are especially b in the upper ends of the BMI distribution, the relationship is smooth and holds over almost the entire range of adolescent BMI. Furthermore, the results are robust to the inclusion of school fixed effects and basic controls for other confounding factors such as race, sex, and age. Some recent research in this area considers whether or not adolescent weight gain is caused by peers. We discuss the econometric issues in plausibly estimating such effects while accounting for growth spurts and difficulties in defining adolescent obesity. While our work identifies correlations between adolescent BMI and peers’ BMI, it is not intended to and cannot fully address the existence of endogenous peer effects.
    7. The nonlinear link between height and wages in Germany, 1985–2004
    Pages 191-199
    Olaf Hubler
    Based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, this article investigates the relationship between height and wages by gender. Unlike previous investigations, which have been limited to an examination of linear effects, this one finds that height influences on wages are curvilinear, and more so for men than for women. More specifically, it finds that women who are shorter than average and men who are somewhat taller than average, but not among the tallest, enjoy significant wage advantages. Furthermore, using Blinder’s decomposition to determine two components of wage differences, we find that these differences can be partitioned into an endowment component and unexplained influences (discrimination). There is a difference between the public and private sectors and between men and women as to the degree of the latter effect. This investigation supports the hypothesis that short and very tall men employed in the private sector are disadvantaged the most. The outcome for women is less robust than for men.
    8. Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China
    Pages 200-216
    Ellen Van de Poel, Owen O’Donnell, Eddy Van Doorslaer
    9. A head above the rest: Height and adolescent psychological well-being
    Pages 217-228
    Daniel I. Rees, Joseph J. Sabia, Laura M. Argys
    Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we examine the effect of adolescent height on mental health as measured by Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scores and Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSE) scores. We find evidence that height is associated with fewer symptoms of depression among females 17–19 years of age, and among males 12–19 years of age. The negative relationship between height and depression among males persists after controlling for body mass index (BMI), differences in pubertal timing, and individual fixed effects, but does not explain the effect of height on educational attainment. We conclude that there is a small psychological benefit for males to being taller as an adolescent.
    10. The social gradient in health: The effect of absolute income and subjective social status assessment on the individual’s health in Europe
    Pages 229-237
    I. Theodossiou, A. Zangelidis
    Using data on individuals aged between 50 and 65 from 6 European countries, this study investigates the effect of absolute income and subjective social status assessment on health in the light of medical evidence indicating that the individual’s position in the social hierarchy undermines his/her mental and physical health. The paper shows that individuals’ own income has a positive, but modest effect on health. Importantly, subjective social status assessment has a significant effect on all health measurements. Finally, the results show that individuals from deprived families (when at the age of 14) have poorer physical and mental health.
    11. Growing up under generalized violence: An ecological study of homicide rates and secular trends in age at menarche in Colombia, 1940s–1980s
    Pages 238-245
    Eduardo Villamor, Jorge E. Chavarro, Luis E. Caro
    12.
    Does the U.S. Food Stamp Program contribute to adult weight gain?
    Pages 246-258
    Jay L. Zagorsky, Patricia K. Smith
    Short Communication
    13.
    The biological standard of living in colonial Korea, 1910–1945
    Pages 259-264
    Seong-Jin Choi, Daniel Schwekendiek
    This paper uses human stature as a biological indicator of living standards in colonial Korea (1910–1945). We show that the average height of adult Koreans increased from the beginning to the end of Japanese rule from about 164 to 166 cm. Height increased slightly before 1910 and dramatically after 1945, but during occupation declined slightly for a few years, only to rise rapidly through the late 1920s, and then stagnated until liberation. This finding is corroborated by a similar study of the Taiwanese under Japanese rule. The deterioration in the growth rates of both peoples from about 1930 to 1945 may be due to the deterioration of living conditions in the two colonies, victims of Japan’s economic depression of 1927 and then of austerity measures as Japan mobilized for war.
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95. Carson Scott Alan. Racial differences in body mass indices of men imprisoned in 19th Century Texas // Economics and Human Biology. Vol. 7. Issue 1 (March 2009). P. 121-127.
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97. Joan Costa-Font, Daniele Fabbri, Joan Gil. Decomposing body mass index gaps between Mediterranean countries: A counterfactual quantile regression analysis // Economics & Human Biology. Vol. 7. No 3. (December 2009). P. 351-365. Wide cross-country variation in obesity rates has been reported between European Union member states. Although the existing cross-country differences have not been analyzed in depth, they contain important information on health production determinants. In this paper we apply a methodology for conducting standardized cross-country comparisons of body mass index (BMI). We draw on estimations of the marginal density function of BMI for Italy and Spain in 2003, two countries with similar GDP and socio-economic conditions. We produce different counterfactual distribution estimates using covariates (health production inputs) specified in a quantile regression. Our findings suggest that Spain-to-Italy BMI gaps among females are largely explained by cross-country variation in the returns to each covariate, especially for younger women. We find that adverse underlying determinants do not explain the gap observed in particular between younger Spanish females and their Italian counterfactuals; behavioural differences appear to be the key. We tentatively conclude that Spanish policy on obesity should target mainly younger females.
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     Boris Mironov. Birth weight and physical stature in St. Petersburg:
     Living standards of women in Russia, 1980-2005, p. 123-143
     Jose-Miguel Martinez-Carrion and Javier Moreno-Lazaro. Was there
     an urban height penalty in Spain, 1840-1913?, p. 144-164
     
     Ankur M. Patel, Ricardo A. Godoy, Craig Seyfried, Victoria Reyes-Garcia,
     Tomas Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade and Susan Tanne. On
     the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society, p.
     165-178
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102. Economics & Human Biology. Volume 5/2, published July, 2007
     • Economics &amli; Human Biology, Vol. 8, Issue 3, December 2010, liages 414-420.This lialier examines the role of lihysical strength in the determination of the height wage liremium by using the “Health 2000 in Finland” data that contain both self-reliorted information on the lihysical strenuousness of work, and information on muscle mass from medical examinations. The results suggest that there are generally no distinct differences in the height liremium between four different work strain categories. We also find that muscle mass is liositively associated with wages lier se. The liremium is both statistically and economically more significant for men than for women. In terms of occuliational sorting, we observe that the shortest men do lihysically very demanding work and the tallest do sedentary work, even after controlling for the influences of age and education.
     • Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988-1994)
       Do D.P., Dubowitz T., Bird C.E., Lurie N., Escarce J.J. and Finch B.K., p. 179
     • The great transformation: A long-run perspective on physical well-being in Canada
       Cranfield J. and Inwood K., p. 204
     • Toward an anthropometric history of provincial France, 1780-1920
       Heyberger L., p. 229
     • Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930
       Godoy R., Goodman E., Gravlee C., Levins R., Seyfried C., Caram M. and Jha N., p. 255
     • Growth reference centiles and secular changes in Turkish children and adolescents
       Ozer B.K., p. 280
     • Urban land rights and child nutritional status in Peru, 2004
       Vogl T.S., p. 302
     • Determinants of teenage pregnancies: The case of Busia District in Kenya
       Were M., p. 322
     • The evolution of adult height in Europe: A brief note
       Garcia J. and Quintana-Domeque C., p. 340
     • «Infant Mortality in Armenia 1992-2003»: A comment
       Redmond G., p. 350
     • Reply to Redmond
       Hakobyan M., Mkrtchyan A. and Yepiskoposyan L., p. 355
     • H. Schutkowski, Human Ecology: Biocultural Adaptation in Human Communities (Ecological Studies) vol. 182, Springer, Berlin (2006) ISBN 3-540-26085-4 305 pp., Price: US$139.00.
       Zakrzewski S.R., p. 35
103. Economics and Biology. Vol. 2/3, December, 2004. Special Issue on Child
     Health in Latin America / Edited by J.R. Behrman, E. Skoufias
104. Economics & Human Biology. Volume 5, Issue 2 (July 2007). P. 179-358

     Regular Articles

     D. Phuong Do, Tamara Dubowitz, Chloe E. Bird, Nicole Lurie, Jose J. Escarce and Brian K. Finch. Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988-1994), P. 179-203.
     John Cranfield and Kris Inwood. The great transformation: A long-run perspective on physical well-being in Canada. P. 204-228.
     Laurent Heyberger. Toward an anthropometric history of provincial France, 1780-1920. P. 229-254.
     Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Goodman, Clarence Gravlee, Richard Levins, Craig Seyfried, Mariana Caram and Naveen Jha. Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930. P. 255-279.
     Baoak Koca Ozer. Growth reference centiles and secular changes in Turkish children and adolescents. P. 280-301.
     Tom S. Vogl. Urban land rights and child nutritional status in Peru, 2004. P. 302-321
     Maureen Were. Determinants of teenage pregnancies: The case of Busia District in Kenya
     P. 322-339.

     Short Communication

     Jaume Garcia and Climent Quintana-Domeque. The evolution of adult height in Europe: A brief note. P. 340-349.

     Correspondence

     Gerry Redmond. «Infant Mortality in Armenia 1992-2003»: A comment. P. 350-354
     Mihran Hakobyan, Ararat Mkrtchyan and Levon Yepiskoposyan. Reply to Redmond. P. 355-356.

     Book Review

     H. Schutkowski, Human Ecology: Biocultural Adaptation in Human Communities (Ecological Studies) vol. 182, Springer, Berlin (2006) ISBN 3-540-26085-4 305 pp., Price: US$139.00. P. 357-358. Sonia R. Zakrzewski

     Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 5, Issue. 3 (December 2007). P. 359-494

     Special Issue on Obesity in Eastern Europe

     Edited by Stanley Ulijaszek and Slawomir Koziel

     Regular Articles

     Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Slawomir Koziel. Nutrition transition and dietary energy availability in Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism. P. 359-369.
     Maria Chrzanowska, Slawomir Koziel and Stanlej J. Ulijaszek. Changes in BMI and the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in Cracow, Poland, 1971-2000. P. 370-378.
     Sonya K. Huffman and Marian Rizov. Determinants of obesity in transition economies: The case of Russia. P. 379-391.
     Cecile Knai, Marc Suhrcke and Tim Lobstein. Obesity in Eastern Europe: An overview of its health and economic implications. P. 392-408.
     J. Vignerova, L. Humenikova, M. Brabec, J. Riedlova and P. Blaha. Long-term changes in body weight, BMI, and adiposity rebound among children and adolescents in the Czech republic. P. 409-425.
     Konrad Zellner, Gottfried Ulbricht and Katrin Kromeyer-Hauschild. Long-term trends in body mass index of children in Jena, Eastern Germany. P. 426-434.
     Iwona Wronka and Romana Pawlinska-Chmara. Childcare, height and BMI among female Polish university students, 2005. P. 435-442.
     Stanley J. Ulijaszek. Frameworks of population obesity and the use of cultural consensus modeling in the study of environments contributing to obesity. P. 443-457.
     Michal Kopczynski. Agrarian reforms, agrarian crisis and the biological standard of living in Poland, 1844-1892. P. 458-470.
     Abay Asfaw. Micronutrient deficiency and the prevalence of mothers’ overweight/obesity in Egypt. P. 471-483.

     Short Communication

     Ralph Shlomowitz. Did the mean height of Australian-born men decline in the late nineteenth century? A comment. P. 484-488.

     Book Reviews

     A. Offer, The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well Being in the United States and Britain Since 1950, Oxford University Press (2006) ISBN 0-19-820853-7 454 pp.
     P. 489-490. Barnaby Marsh
     A. Bhargava, Econometrics Statistics and Computational Approaches in Food and Health Sciences , World Scientific, New Jersey (2006) ISBN 981-256-841-7 382 pp., Price: US$ 75.00.
     P. 491-493. Ajay Mahal

105. Economics & Human Biology. Volume 6. Issue 1. March 2008. P. 1-190.
     Editorial Board

     Regular articles

     Joan Costa-Font and Joan Gil. Generational effects and gender height dimorphism in contemporary Spain. P. 1-18.
     M. Kamrul Islam, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Bo Gullberg, Martin Lindstrom and Juan Merlo.
     Social capital externalities and mortality in Sweden. P. 19-42.
     Jan Jacobs, Tomek Katzur and Vincent Tassenaar. On estimators for truncated height samples. P. 43-56.
     Ajay Mahal and Anup K. Karan. Adequacy of dietary intakes and poverty in India: Trends in the 1990s. P. 57-74.
     Parasmani Dasgupta, Rana Saha and Maarten Nub. Changes in body size, shape and nutritional status of Middle-Class Bengali boys of Kolkata, India, 1982-2002. P. 75-94.
     Walter Osika and Scott M. Montgomery. Economic disadvantage modifies the association of height with low mood in the US, 2004: The disappointment paradox. P. 95-107 Inas Rashad. Height, health, and income in the US, 1984-2005. P. 108-126.
     Paula Veiga. Out-of-pocket health care expenditures due to excess of body weight in Portugal. P. 127-142.
     Francois-Charles Wolff and Maliki. Evidence on the impact of child labor on child health in Indonesia, 1993-2000. P. 143-169.

     Short reports

     Gilles Boetsch, Aude Brus and Bruno Ancel. Stature, economy and migration during the 19th century: Comparative analysis of Haute-Vienne and Hautes-Alpes, France
     Pages 170-180.
     Maria Enrica Danubio, Gaetano Miranda, Maria Giulia Vinciguerra, Elvira Vecchi and Fabrizio Rufo. Comparison of self-reported and measured height and weight: Implications for obesity research among young adults. P. 181-190.

106. Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 8, Issue 3, December 2010, Pages 414-420.This paper examines the role of physical strength in the determination of the height wage premium by using the “Health 2000 in Finland” data that contain both self-reported information on the physical strenuousness of work, and information on muscle mass from medical examinations. The results suggest that there are generally no distinct differences in the height premium between four different work strain categories. We also find that muscle mass is positively associated with wages per se. The premium is both statistically and economically more significant for men than for women. In terms of occupational sorting, we observe that the shortest men do physically very demanding work and the tallest do sedentary work, even after controlling for the influences of age and education.
107. Eveleth P. B., Tanner G. M. Worldwide Variation in Human Growth.
     Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.
108. Flynn James R. Requiem for nutrition as the cause of IQ gains: Raven’s gains in Britain 1938–2008 // Economics and Human Biology. Vol. 7. Issue 1 (March 2009). P. 18-27
109. Fogel, Robert. The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100:
     Europe, America, and the Third World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
     Press, 2004. 191 p. Изучается взаимодействие между здоровьем, питанием и технологией
     в последние три столетия. Если до XVIII в. хроническое недопотребление было
     нормой, то в XVIII-ХХ вв., благодаря улучшениям в технологии и физиологии
     человека, продолжительность жизни увеличилась более чем вдвое, а масса тела
     — на 50%. Более здоровый и сильный человек способствовал экономическому росту
     и технологическим изменениям, что в свою очередь привело к уменьшению экономического
     неравенства и продолжительности труда.
110. Giovanni Federico. Heights, calories and welfare: a new perspective on Italian
     industrialization, 1854-1913. P. 289-308.
111. Guff T. Historical Anthropometrics — Theory, Methods, and State of
     the Field // Komlos J. (ed.). The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents:
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112. Hai Fang, Mir M. Ali, John A. Rizzo. Does smoking affect body weight and obesity in China? // Economics & Human Biology. Vol. 7. No 3. (December 2009). P. Pages 334-350. An inverse relationship between smoking and body weight has been documented in the medical literature, but the effect of cigarette smoking on obesity remains inconclusive. In addition, the evidence is mixed on whether rising obesity rates are an unintended consequence of successful anti-smoking policies. This study re-examines these relationships using data from China, the largest consumer and manufacturer of tobacco in the world that is also experiencing a steady rise in obesity rates. We focus on the impact of the total number of cigarettes smoked per day on individuals’ body mass index (BMI) and on the likelihood of being overweight and obese. Instrumental variables estimation is used to correct for the endogeneity of cigarette smoking. We find a moderate negative and significant relationship between cigarette smoking and BMI. Smoking is also negatively related to being overweight and obese, but the marginal effects are small and statistically insignificant for being obese. Quantile regression analyses reveal that the association between smoking and BMI is quite weak among subjects whose BMIs are at the high end of the distribution but are considerably ber among subjects in the healthy weight range. Ordered probit regression analyses also confirm these findings. Our results thus reconcile an inverse average effect of smoking on body weight with the absence of any significant effect on obesity. From a policy perspective these findings suggest that, while smoking cessation may lead to moderate weight gain among subjects of healthy weight, the effects on obese subjects are modest and should not be expected to lead to a large increase in obesity prevalence rates.
113. Martin Hiermeyer. Height and BMI values of German conscripts in 2000, 2001 and 1906 // Economics & Human Biology. Vol. 7. No 3. (December 2009). P. 366-375. We examine the height and weight of 320,000 German 18–22-year-old conscripts born between 1979 and 1982. We show that height and BMI outcomes are associated with the socio-economic status of a person. For example, we find a positive correlation between education and height and a negative one between education and BMI. A West-East and a North-South gradient in both height and BMI is found. Today, West German recruits are about 5.5 cm taller than their peers 43 years ago and about 12.5 cm taller than those 100 years ago, reflecting a substantial improvement in the biological standard of living. To this day, however, individuals of high socio-economic status reach an above-average height.
114. Howard Bodenhorn. Height, weight and body mass index values of mid-19th century New York legislative officers // Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 8, Issue 2, July 2010, Pages 291-293. Previous studies of mid-19th century American heights and body mass index values have used potentially unrepresentative groups—students in military academies, prisoners, and African Americans. This paper uses an alternative source with heights and weights of ordinary people employed in a wide variety of occupations. The results reveal the operation of the antebellum paradox in that average heights declined between men born circa 1820 and those born circa 1840. Average weights also declined for adult males, suggesting a decline in mid-19th century nutritional status.
115. Hugo F.V. Cardoso, Madalena Caninas. Secular trends in social class differences of height, weight and BMI of boys from two schools in Lisbon, Portugal (1910–2000) // Economics & Human Biology. Vol. 8, Issue 1, Pages 1-140 (March 2010) Pages 111-120.
116. Jahrbuch fur Wirtschafts Geschichte. 2000/1. Historische Anthropometrie.
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117. Jehn Megan, Brewis Alexandra. Paradoxical malnutrition in mother–child pairs: Untangling the phenomenon of over- and under-nutrition in underdeveloped economies // Economics and Human Biology. Vol. 7. Issue 1 (March 2009). P. 28-35.
118. Joerg Baten, Scott Carson. Latin American anthropometrics, past and present—An overview  // Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 8, Issue 2, July 2010, Pages 141-144.
119. Johansson Edvard, Bockerman Petri, Kiiskinen Urpo, Heliovaara Markku. Obesity and labour market success in Finland: The difference between having a high BMI and being fat // Economics and Human Biology. Vol. 7. Issue 1 (March 2009). P. 36-45.
120. Jurgen Maurer. Height, education and later-life cognition in Latin America and the Caribbean // Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 8, Issue 2, July 2010, Pages 168-176. Building on previous evidence from the U.S., this study investigates the relationship between anthropometric markers (height and knee height), early-life conditions, education, and cognitive function in later life among urban elderly from Latin America and the Caribbean. I document a positive association between height and later-life cognitive function, which is larger for women than for men. This sex difference increases when I address potential feedback effects from mid- and later-life circumstances on stature by using knee height as an instrument for height. Specifically, while the estimates for women remain largely unchanged, I only find a diminished and statistically insignificant association between instrumented height and later-life cognition for men. This finding suggests that at least part of the association between height and later-life cognition among men may stem from common third factors that are correlated with both height and later-life cognition, such as adverse occupational exposures or health events during mid- and later life. Extended models that also include education further diminish the association between height and later-life cognition. Education displays strong positive gradients with the employed measures of childhood circumstances – including height – which points to education as a potential pathway linking early-life conditions and later-life cognitive function.
121. Kalediene R. and Petrauskiene J. Socio-economic transition, inequality,
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122. John Komlos. Data: archival information available on the health
     of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary inmates. P. 399.
123. John Komlos. Data: archival information on the physical stature
     and weight of American men during World War I and World War II. P. 401-402.
124. Komlos J. Editor’s note, p. 1.
125. Komlos J. (ed.). The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents.
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126. Komlos J. Nutrition and Economic Development in Eighteenth-Century
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127. Komlos J. and Baur M. From the tallest to (one of) the fattest: the
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128. Komlos J., Baur M. From the Tallest to one of the Fattest: The Enigmatic
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     странах и имели недостаток веса. Сегодня же голландцы, шведы и норвежцы, а
     также датчане, британцы и немцы выше американцев на 3-7 см, однако американцы
     имеют избыточный вес. Причины: меньшее социальное неравенство, более совершенная
     система социального обеспечения, большая социальная безопасность, несмотря
     на меньший национальный доход на душу населения сравнительно с США.
129. Komlos J., Baten J. (eds.). The Biological Standard of Living in
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131. Lantzsch Jana, SchusterKlaus. Socioeconomic status and physical stature in 19th-century Bavaria // Economics and Human Biology. Vol. 7. Issue 1 (March 2009). P. 46-54.
132. Latifa Mohammad Baynouna, Anthony D. Revel, Nico J.D. Nagelkerke, Tariq M. Jaber, Aziza O. Omar, Nader M. Ahmed, Mohammad K. Naziruldeen, Mamdouh F. Al Sayed, Fuad A. Nour, Sameh Abdouni. Secular trend in height in Al Ain-United Arab Emirates // Economics & Human Biology. Vol. 7. No 3. (December 2009). P. 405-406. Correlation between cycles in human stature and those in economic variables is well established. A recent review of international trends in this area provided information from most parts of the world but none on Arabs in the Middle East or more specifically the gulf region. The United Arab Emirates experienced a transformation in economic and social life followed the discovery of oil in the late 1960s and the wealth that it generated. No data is available on human growth at this period of time because its population never had health services prior to the 1970s. A study on conventional cardiovascular risk factors in 2004–2005 included 817 randomly selected national adults (?18 years) from both genders. The relationship between height and age in this study showed both men and women have increased in height with time demonstrating the secular change in height most likely a result of changing socioeconomic factors.
133. Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson. The growth of obesity and technological change // Economics & Human Biology. Vol. 7. No 3. (December 2009). P. 283-293. This paper presents a dynamic theory of body weight and develops its implications. We argue that technological change has induced weight growth by making home- and market-production more sedentary and by lowering food prices through agricultural innovation. In addition, we illustrate that, while exercise and food intake are complements, reductions in exercise will always raise optimal body weight, as will increases in food intake. We also characterize how body weight varies with income, both within a country, and across countries. Within a country, income may have an inverted U-shaped relationship with body weight, due to the offsetting effects of the demand for food, and the demand for an ideal body weight. This can have important implications for the body weight impacts of public transfer programs. Across countries, however, mean weight is likely to be higher in richer countries. Finally, we present descriptive empirical evidence that illustrates the inverted U-shaped relationship between body weight and income in US males, and suggests the importance of secular trends in weight gain, which are consistent with the impacts of broad-based technological changes.
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     как индустриализация влияла на диету и кухню американцев, на развитие сети
     ресторанов и кафе, изменяла способы и технологию приготовления пищи, как новая
     наука диетология воздействовала на потребление среднего класса, на его отношение
     к весу и здоровью, породила моду и движение за экономичное и здоровое питание.
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146. Michele Belot, Jan Fidrmuc. Anthropometry of love: Height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages // Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 8, Issue 3, December 2010, Pages 361-372.Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We argue that differences in height distributions, combined with a simple preference for the husband to be taller than the wife, can help explain these ethnic-specific gender asymmetries. Blacks are taller than Asians, and we argue that this significantly affects their marriage prospects with whites. We provide empirical support for this hypothesis using data from the Millennium Cohort Study. Specifically, we find that ethnic differences in propensity to intermarry with Whites shrink when we control for the proportion of suitable partners with respect to height.
147. Monheit Alan C., Vistnes Jessica P., Rogowski Jeannette A. Overweight in adolescents: Implications for health expenditures // Economics and Human Biology. Vol. 7. Issue 1 (March 2009). P. 55-63.
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149. Jason E. Murasko. Socioeconomic status, height, and obesity in children // Economics & Human Biology. Vol. 7. No 3. (December 2009). P. 376-386. The substantial increase in the prevalence of child obesity over recent decades and its association with a number of negative health and economic outcomes suggests its b potential as an influence on the lifecourse development of health and productivity. This paper evaluates interactive effects between family socioeconomic status (SES) and height on child obesity in the United States. Using the 1999–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), the results of this paper confirm previous findings that taller children exhibit greater propensity towards obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI) and that obesity is inversely related to family SES as measured by poverty status. The analysis adds to the existing literature by showing that the magnitude of the SES–obesity association is larger in taller children. Age and sex patterns are evaluated that suggest the SES–height interaction persists through childhood and adolescence in males but is only evident in females during adolescence. Interaction effects are also shown to be most evident in white males and Hispanic females. Policy implications are discussed and directions for future work are suggested.
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Petri Bockerman, Edvard Johansson, Urpo Kiiskinen, Markku Heliovaara. The relationship between physical work and the height premium: Finnish evidence //

153. Powell Lisa M., Bao Yanjun. Food prices, access to food outlets and child weight // Economics and Human Biology. Vol. 7. Issue 1 (March 2009). P. 64-72.

Resemblances in height between relatives suggest that 80% of height variation is under genetic control with the rest controlled by environmental factors such as diet and disease exposure. Nearly a century ago it was recognized that many genes were likely to be involved but it is only with recent advances in technology that it has become possible to comprehensively search the human genome for DNA variants that control height. About 50 genes and regions of the genome have been associated with height to date. These begin to explain the biological basis of height, its links to disease and aid our understanding of the evolution of human height. The genes discovered so far have a very small individual effect and hundreds, maybe thousands, more of even smaller effects are still lost in the genome. Despite a successful start to height gene mapping, there remain considerable theoretical, technological, and statistical hurdles to be overcome in order to unravel its full genetic basis.

154. Riley J. C. Height, Nutrition, and Mortality Risk Reconsidered //
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155. Rossitsa Rangelova. Bio-demographic change and socio-economic trends in
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156. Roy Wada, Erdal Tekin. Body composition and wages  // Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 8, Issue 2, July 2010, Pages 242-254. This paper examines the relationship between body composition and wages in the United States. We develop measures of body composition – body fat (BF) and fat-free mass (FFM) – using data on bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) that are available in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III and estimate wage models for respondents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Previous research uses body size or BMI as measures of obesity despite a growing concern that they do not distinguish between body fat and fat-free body mass or adequately control for non-homogeneity inside the human body. Therefore, measures presented in this paper represent a useful alternative to BMI-based proxies of obesity. Our results indicate that BF is associated with decreased wages for both males and females among whites and blacks. We also present evidence suggesting that FFM is associated with increased wages. We show that these results are not the artifacts of unobserved heterogeneity. Finally, our findings are robust to numerous specification checks and to a large number of alternative BIA prediction equations from which the body composition measures are derived.
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