Health, Mortality and the. Standard of Living in Europe. and North America since Volume II. Edited by. Roderick Floud

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1 Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and North America since 1700 Volume II Edited by Roderick Floud Former Provost Gresham College, London, UK The late Robert William Fogel Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions, University of Chicago, USA Bernard Harris Professor of Social Policy University of Strathclyde, UK and Sok Chul Hong Associate Professor ofeconomics Sogang University, South Korea An Elgar Research Collection Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA

2 Contents A cknowledgements An Introduction to both volumes by the editors appears in Volume I ix PART I ANTHROPOMETRIC STUDIES 1. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ([1973] 1979), 'The Conscripts of 1868: A Study of the Correlation between Geographica! Mobility, Delinquency and Physical Stature, and Other Aspects of the Situation of the Young Frenchmen Called to Do Military Service in that Year', in The Territory of the Historian, translated from the French by Ben and Siän Reynolds, Chapter 4, Brighton, UK: Harvester Press Ltd, 33-60, Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, James Trussell, Roderick Floud, Clayne L. Pope and Larry T. Wimmer (1978), 'The Economics ofmortality in North America, : A Description of a Research Project', Historical Methods, 11 (2), Spring, Robert William Fogel (1993), 'New Sources and New Techniques for the Study of Secular Trends in Nutritional Status, Health, Mortality, and the Process of Aging', Historical Methods, 26 (1), Winter, Robert A. Margo and Richard H. Steckel (1982), 'The Heights of American Slaves: New Evidence on Slave Nutrition and Health', Social Science History, 6 (4), Fall, Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Georgia C. Villaflor (1982), 'The Early Achievement of Modern Stature in America', Social Science History, 6 (4), Fall, John Komlos (1987), 'The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietaiy Change in Antebellum America', Journal of Economic History, XLVII (4), December, Joseph M. Prince and Richard H. Steckel (2003), 'Nutritional Success on the Great Plains: Nineteenth-Centuiy Equestrian Nomads', Journal of lnterdisciplinary History, XXXIII (3), Winter, Lars G. Sandberg and Richard H. Steckel (1980), 'Soldier, Soldier, What Made You Grow so Tall? A Study of Height, Health, and Nutrition in Sweden, ', Economy and History, XXIII (2),

3 vi Health Mortality and the Standard ofliving in Europe and N. America since 1700 II 9. Roderick Floud and Kenneth W. Wächter (1982), 'Poverty and Physical Stature: Evidence onthe Standard ofliving of London Boys ', Social Science History, 6 (4), Fall, Roderick Floud (1998), 'Height, Weight and Body Mass of the British Population since 1820', NBER Working Paper Series on Historical Factors in Long Run Growth, Historical Paper 108, i, ii, 3-38, figures, John Komlos (2003), 'An Anthropometric History ofearly-modern France', European Review of Economic History, 7 (2), August, John Komlos (1985), 'Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Standard of Living and Economic Development in the Eighteenth Century', American Historical Review, 90 (5), December Jörg Baten (2001), 'Climate, Grain Production and Nutritional Status in Southern Germany during the XVIIIth Century', Journal of European Economic History, 30 (1), Spring, Brian A'Hearn (2003), 'Anthropometric Evidence on Living Standards in Northern Italy, ', Journal of Economic History, 63 (2), June, Jose M. Martinez Carrion (1994), 'Stature, Weifare, and Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century Spain: The Case of Murcia', in John Komlos (ed.), Stature, Living Standards and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History, Chapter 5, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 76-89, bibliography 443 PART II HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND MORTALITY 16. TJ. Cole (2003), 'The Secular Trend in Human Physical Growth: A Biological View', Economics and Human Biology, 1 (2), June, Richard H. Steckel (1983), 'Height and Per Capita Income', Historical Methods, 16 (1), Winter, Roderick Floud (1994), 'The Heights of Europeans since 1750: A New Source for European Economic History', in John Komlos (ed.), Stature, Living Standards, and Economic Development: Essays in Anthropometric History, Chapter 1, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 9-24, references L.H. Schmitt and G.A. Harrison (1988), 'Pattems in the Within- Population Variability of Stature and Weight', Annais of Human ßWogy, 15 (5), Dora L. Costa (1993), 'Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records', Explorations in Economic History, 30,

4 Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and N. America since 1700 II vii 21. Timothy Cuff (1993), 'The Body Mass Index Values of Mid- Nineteenth-Century West Point Cadets: A Theoretical Application of Waaler's Curves to a Historical Population', Historical Methods, 26 (4), Fall, George Alter (2004), 'Height, Frailty, and the Standard of Living: Modelling the Effects of Diet and Disease on Declining Mortality and Increasing Height', Population Studies, 58 (3), Thomas T. Samaras, Harold Elrick, and Lowell H. Storms (2003), 'Is Height Related to Longevity?', Life Sciences, 72 (16), March, PART III ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF HEALTH CRANGES 24. James F. Fries (1980), 'Aging, Natural Death, and the Compression of Morbidity', New England Journal of Medicine, 303 (3), July, Robert W. Fogel (1994), 'Economic Growth, Population Theory, and Physiology: The Bearing of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy', American Economic Review, 84 (3), June, Robert W. Fogel and Dora L. Costa (1997), 'A Theory of Technophysio Evolution, with some Implications for Forecasting Population, Health Care Costs, and Pension Costs', Demography, 34 (1), February, Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (1997), 'Mortality by Cause for Eight Regions of the World: Global Bürden of Disease Study', The Lancet, 349 (9061), May, Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (1997), 'Regional Pattems of Disability-Free Life Expectancy and Disability-Adjusted Life Expectancy: Global Bürden of Disease Study', The Lancet, 349 (9062), May, Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (1997), 'Global Mortality, Disability, and the Contribution of Risk Factors: Global Bürden of Disease Study', The Lancet, 349 (9063), May, Christopher J.L. Murray and Alan D. Lopez (1997), 'Alternative Projections of Mortality and Disability by Cause : Global Bürden of Disease Study', The Lancet, 349 (9064), May, Theodore W. Schultz (1961), 'Investment in Human Capital', American Economic Review, LI (1), March, John Strauss and Duncan Thomas (1998), 'Health, Nutrition, and Economic Development', Journal of Economic Literature, XXXVI (2), June,

5 viii Health, Mortality and the Standard of Living in Europe and N. America since 1700 II 33. Anne Case, Darren Lubotsky, and Christina Paxson (2002), 'Economic Status and Health in Childhood: The Origins of the Gradient', American Economic Review, 92 (5), December, T. Paul Schultz (2002), 'Wage Gains Associated with Height as a Form of Health Human Capital', American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 92 (2), May, Anne Case and Christina Paxson (2008), 'Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes', Journal of Political Economy, 116 (3), June, Chulhee Lee (2005), ' Wealth Accumulation and the Health of Union Army Veterans, ', Journal of Economic History, 65 (2), June, Ann Bartel and Paul Taubman (1979), 'Health and Labor Market Success: The Role of Various Diseases', Review of Economics and Statistics, LXI (1), February, Suchit Arora (2001), 'Health, Human Productivity, and Long-Term Economic Growth', Journal of Economic History, 61 (3), September,