Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 8, issue 3, 2010

Professor James Tanner (1920-2010) pp. 295-296

Roderick Floud

Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity, and inequality pp. 297-308

Avner Offer, Rachel Pechey and Stanley Ulijaszek

Assessing the impact of obesity on labor market outcomes pp. 309-319

Maarten Lindeboom, Petter Lundborg and Bas van der Klaauw

Nature, nurture and socioeconomic policy--What can we learn from molecular genetics? pp. 320-330

Petter Lundborg and Anders Stenberg

Child nutrition in Mozambique in 2003: The role of mother's schooling and nutrition knowledge pp. 331-345

Francesco Burchi

Health and wealth in Uzbekistan and sub-Saharan Africa in comparative perspective pp. 346-360

Sophie Hohmann and Michel Garenne

Anthropometry of love: Height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages pp. 361-372

Michèle Belot and Jan Fidrmuc

Anthropometry and socioeconomics among couples: Evidence in the United States pp. 373-384

Sonia Oreffice and Climent Quintana-Domeque

The growth status of North Korean refugee children and adolescents from 6 to 19 years of age pp. 385-395

Sunyoung Pak

Trends in the association between height and socioeconomic indicators in France, 1970-2003 pp. 396-404

Archana Singh-Manoux, Julie Gourmelen, Jane Ferrie, Karri Silventoinen, Alice Guéguen, Silvia Stringhini, Hermann Nabi and Mika Kivimaki

Long run trends in the heights of European men, 19th-20th centuries pp. 405-413

Timothy Hatton and Bernice E. Bray

The relationship between physical work and the height premium: Finnish evidence pp. 414-420

Petri Böckerman, Edvard Johansson, Urpo Kiiskinen and Markku Heliövaara

Obesity among Poor Americans: Is Public Assistance the Problem? Patricia K. Smith. pp. 197. (Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 2009.), ISBN 978-0-8265-1636-7, paperback pp. 421-422

Susan Averett

Volume 8, issue 2, 2010

Latin American anthropometrics, past and present--An overview pp. 141-144

Joerg Baten and Scott Carson

The seed of abundance and misery: Peruvian living standards from the early republican period to the end of the guano era (1820-1880) pp. 145-152

Linda Twrdek and Kerstin Scholler, born Manzel

Changes in stature, weight, and nutritional status with tourism-based economic development in the Yucatan pp. 153-158

Thomas L. Leatherman, Alan H. Goodman and Tobias Stillman

Property rights and chronic diseases: Evidence from a natural experiment in Montevideo, Uruguay 1990-2006 pp. 159-167

Nestor Gandelman

Height, education and later-life cognition in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 168-176

Jürgen Maurer

Community well-being and growth status of indigenous school children in rural Oaxaca, southern Mexico pp. 177-187

Maria Eugenia Peña Reyes, Guillermo Bali Chavez, Bertis B. Little and Robert M. Malina

Disentangling nutritional factors and household characteristics related to child stunting and maternal overweight in Guatemala pp. 188-196

Jounghee Lee, Robert F. Houser, Aviva Must, Patricia Palma de Fulladolsa and Odilia I. Bermudez

The impact of altitude on infant health in South America pp. 197-211

George L. Wehby, Eduardo E. Castilla and Jorge Lopez-Camelo

Why are Mexican American boys so much taller now? pp. 212-222

Marcelo Delajara and Melissa Rodríguez-Segura

Labour market outcomes for people with a spinal cord injury pp. 223-232

David Rowell and Luke Connelly

Brainstorm: Occupational choice, bipolar illness and creativity pp. 233-241

Carol Horton Tremblay, Shawna Grosskopf and Ke Yang

Body composition and wages pp. 242-254

Roy Wada and Erdal Tekin

The negative health consequences of unemployment: The case of Poland pp. 255-260

Slawomir Koziel, Monika Lopuszanska, Alicja Szklarska and Anna Lipowicz

The economics of race and eugenic sterilization in North Carolina: 1958-1968 pp. 261-272

Gregory Price and William Darity

Health trends in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting evidence from infant mortality rates and adult heights pp. 273-288

Yoko Akachi and David Canning

Charlemagne was very tall, but not robust pp. 289-290

Frank J. Rühli, Bernhard Blümich and Maciej Henneberg

Height, weight and body mass index values of mid-19th century New York legislative officers pp. 291-293

Howard Bodenhorn

Volume 8, issue 1, 2010

Welcome John Cawley pp. 1-1

John Komlos

Incentives, time use and BMI: The roles of eating, grazing and goods pp. 2-15

Daniel Hamermesh

Nutritional status and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, 1950-1980 pp. 16-29

Alexander Moradi

Measures of the intergenerational transmission of body mass index between mothers and their children in the United States, 1981-2004 pp. 30-43

Timothy J. Classen

Fat and out in Salerno and its province: Adolescent obesity and early school leaving in Southern Italy pp. 44-57

Adriana Barone and Shane Niall O'Higgins

The recent decline in the height of African-American women pp. 58-66

John Komlos

Taller - Healthier - more equal? The biological standard of living in Switzerland in the second half of the 20th century pp. 67-79

Arne Benjamin Kues

The economic and nutrition transition in Equatorial Guinea coincided with a double burden of over- and under nutrition pp. 80-87

Estefanía Custodio, Miguel Ángel Descalzo, Jesús Roche, Laura Molina, Ignacio Sánchez, Magdalena Lwanga, Alberto Manuel Torres, Eduardo Fernández-Zincke, Cristina Bernis, Eduardo Villamor and Ana Baylin

Why no adult stunting penalty or height premium?: Estimates from native Amazonians in Bolivia pp. 88-99

Ricardo Godoy, Oyunbileg Magvanjav, Colleen Nyberg, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Thomas W. McDade, William R. Leonard, Victoria Reyes-García, Tomás Huanca, Susan Tanner and Clarence Gravlee

Nutritional status and socioeconomic change among Toba and Wichí populations of the Argentinean Chaco pp. 100-110

Claudia R. Valeggia, Kevin M. Burke and Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

Secular trends in social class differences of height, weight and BMI of boys from two schools in Lisbon, Portugal (1910-2000) pp. 111-120

Hugo F.V. Cardoso and Madalena Caninas

Height and body mass index values of nineteenth-century New York legislators pp. 121-126

Howard Bodenhorn

The height and BMI values of West Point cadets after the Civil War pp. 127-133

Martin Hiermeyer

Infant mortality decline in Armenia: Why with uneven rates? pp. 134-137

Mihran Hakobyan and Levon Yepiskoposyan

Francis E. Johnston and Ira Harkavy, The Obesity Culture: Strategies for Change, Smith-Gordon (2009) $37.50, 164 pp.,ISBN 978-1-85463-225-8 pp. 138-139

Lawrence M. Schell

Volume 7, issue 3, 2009

Sex differences in obesity rates in poor countries: Evidence from South Africa pp. 271-282

Anne Case and Alicia Menendez

The growth of obesity and technological change pp. 283-293

Darius Lakdawalla and Tomas Philipson

Genetics of human height pp. 294-306

Brian P. McEvoy and Peter M. Visscher

The timing of the rise in U.S. obesity varies with measure of fatness pp. 307-318

Richard Burkhauser, John Cawley and Maximilian Schmeiser

The anthropometric history of Argentina, Brazil and Peru during the 19th and early 20th century pp. 319-333

Joerg Baten, Ines Pelger and Linda Twrdek

Does smoking affect body weight and obesity in China? pp. 334-350

Hai Fang, Mir M. Ali and John Rizzo

Decomposing body mass index gaps between Mediterranean countries: A counterfactual quantile regression analysis pp. 351-365

Joan Costa-Font, Daniele Fabbri and Joan Gil

Height and BMI values of German conscripts in 2000, 2001 and 1906 pp. 366-375

Martin Hiermeyer

Socioeconomic status, height, and obesity in children pp. 376-386

Jason Murasko

Childhood overweight in the United States: A quantile regression approach pp. 387-397

David Stifel and Susan Averett

Evolution of obesity by social status in France, 1981-2003 pp. 398-404

Thibaut de Saint Pol

Secular trend in height in Al Ain-United Arab Emirates pp. 405-406

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 and Sameh Abdouni

H. Schutkowski, Editor, Between Biology and Culture, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2008) pp. xi + 310 incl. index, ISBN: 978-0-521-85936-3 pp. 407-407

A. Theodore Steegman

Volume 7, issue 2, 2009

Life at the top: The benefits of height pp. 133-136

Angus Deaton and Raksha Arora

Height, wealth, and health: An overview with new data from three longitudinal studies pp. 137-152

G. David Batty, Martin J. Shipley, David Gunnell, Rachel Huxley, Mika Kivimaki, Mark Woodward, Crystal Man Ying Lee and George Davey Smith

Obesity and labor market outcomes among legal immigrants to the United States from developing countries pp. 153-164

John Cawley, Euna Han and Edward Norton

Protein supply and nutritional status in nineteenth century Bavaria, Prussia and France pp. 165-180

Joerg Baten

Weight gain in adolescents and their peers pp. 181-190

Timothy Halliday and Sally Kwak

The nonlinear link between height and wages in Germany, 1985-2004 pp. 191-199

Olaf Hübler

Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China pp. 200-216

Ellen Van de Poel, Owen O'Donnell and Eddy Van Doorslaer

A head above the rest: Height and adolescent psychological well-being pp. 217-228

Daniel Rees, Joseph J. Sabia and Laura M. Argys

The social gradient in health: The effect of absolute income and subjective social status assessment on the individual's health in Europe pp. 229-237

Ioannis Theodossiou and Alexandros Zangelidis

Growing up under generalized violence: An ecological study of homicide rates and secular trends in age at menarche in Colombia, 1940s-1980s pp. 238-245

Eduardo Villamor, Jorge E. Chavarro and Luis E. Caro

Does the U.S. Food Stamp Program contribute to adult weight gain? pp. 246-258

Jay Zagorsky and Patricia K. Smith

The biological standard of living in colonial Korea, 1910-1945 pp. 259-264

Seong-Jin Choi and Daniel Schwekendiek

The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies and Products that are Fattening the Human Race, Barry Popkin, (229 pages) Price: USA $24.95, ISBN 978-1-58333-313-6 pp. 265-266

Colleen M. Doak

Guy Soudjian Lavauzelle and Panazol, Editors, Anthropologie du conscrit parisien sous le second Empire (2008) ISBN: 978-2-7025-1086-5, price 29[euro], pp. 266 pp. 267-270

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Volume 7, issue 1, 2009

Investing in early human development: Timing and economic efficiency pp. 1-6

Orla Doyle, Colm Harmon, James Heckman and Richard E. Tremblay

Early childhood length-for-age is associated with the work status of Filipino young adults pp. 7-17

Delia B. Carba, Vivencia L. Tan and Linda S. Adair

Requiem for nutrition as the cause of IQ gains: Raven's gains in Britain 1938-2008 pp. 18-27

James R. Flynn

Paradoxical malnutrition in mother-child pairs: Untangling the phenomenon of over- and under-nutrition in underdeveloped economies pp. 28-35

Megan Jehn and Alexandra Brewis

Obesity and labour market success in Finland: The difference between having a high BMI and being fat pp. 36-45

Edvard Johansson, Petri Böckerman, Urpo Kiiskinen and Markku Heliövaara

Socioeconomic status and physical stature in 19th-century Bavaria pp. 46-54

Jana Lantzsch and Klaus Schuster

Overweight in adolescents: Implications for health expenditures pp. 55-63

Alan C. Monheit, Jessica P. Vistnes and Jeannette A. Rogowski

Food prices, access to food outlets and child weight pp. 64-72

Lisa M. Powell and Yanjun Bao

Income and body mass index in Europe pp. 73-83

Jaume Garcia Villar and Climent Quintana-Domeque

Prenatal care demand and its effects on birth outcomes by birth defect status in Argentina pp. 84-95

George L. Wehby, Jeffrey C. Murray, Eduardo E. Castilla, Jorge S. Lopez-Camelo and Robert L. Ohsfeldt

Body mass index, socio-economic status and socio-behavioral practices among Tz'utujil Maya women pp. 96-106

Jason M. Nagata, Claudia R. Valeggia, Frances K. Barg and Kent D.W. Bream

The physical stature of Jewish men in the German Principality of Salm, 1802-1807 pp. 107-108

Diethard Aschoff and Martin Hiermeyer

Recent growth of children in the two Koreas: A meta-analysis pp. 109-112

Daniel Schwekendiek and Sunyoung Pak

Trends in U.S. food prices, 1950-2007 pp. 113-120

Thomas Christian and Inas Rashad

Racial differences in body mass indices of men imprisoned in 19th Century Texas pp. 121-127

Scott Alan Carson

A. Bhargava, Food, Economics and Health, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK (2008) 221 pp., ISBN 978-0-19-926914 pp. 128-129

Steven Block

Anthropometric Standards. An Interactive Nutritional Reference of Body Size and Body Composition for Children and Adults. A. Roberto Frisancho, 2008, ISBN 13: 978-0-472-11591-4, ISBN 10: 0-472-11591-X, published in USA by The University of Michigan Press, price 85 USD, 335 pp., 143 growth references tables, 89 growth charts, complementary tables and figures, CD pp. 130-131

Jana Vignerov