Economics & Human Biology

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Volume 6, issue 3, 2008

Are employers discriminating with respect to weight?: European Evidence using Quantile Regression pp. 305-329

Vincenzo Atella, Noemi Pace and Daniela Vuri

For better or worse: Relationship status and body mass index pp. 330-349

Susan Averett, Asia Sikora and Laura M. Argys

Obesity and labor market outcomes in Denmark pp. 350-362

Jane Greve

Cost-effectiveness of a family-based GP-mediated intervention targeting overweight and moderately obese children pp. 363-376

Marjory Moodie, Michelle Haby, Melissa Wake, Lisa Gold and Robert Carter

The effect of friends on adolescent body weight pp. 377-387

Francesco Renna, Irina Grafova and Nidhi Thakur

Obesity and skill attainment in early childhood pp. 388-397

John Cawley and Katharina Spiess

Using graphical chain models to analyze differences in structural correlates of undernutrition in Benin and Bangladesh pp. 398-419

Ronja Foraita, Stephan Klasen and Iris Pigeot

Can breast feeding help you in later life? Evidence from German military heights in the early 20th century pp. 420-430

Michael Haines and Hallie J. Kintner

The trade-off between a high and an equal biological standard of living--Evidence from Germany pp. 431-445

Martin Hiermeyer

Determinants of well-being in North Korea: Evidence from the post-famine period pp. 446-454

Daniel Schwekendiek

Growth reference charts and the nutritional status of Indian children pp. 455-468

Alessandro Tarozzi

Convergence of body mass with aging: The longitudinal interrelationship of health, weight, and survival pp. 469-481

Zhou Yang, David Bishai and Jeffrey Harman

Historical trends in height, weight, and body mass: Data from U.S. Major League Baseball players, 1869-1983 pp. 482-488

Jarron M. Saint Onge, Patrick M. Krueger and Richard G. Rogers

T.T. Samaras, Editor, Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling: Physiological, Performance, Growth, Longevity and Ecological Ramifications, Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York (2007) pp. 489-491

Jonathan C.K. Wells

The Health of Populations: General Theories and Particular Realities, 2007, Stephen J. Kunitz, Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN: 13 978-0-19-530807-5 pp. 492-494

Bernard Harris

G. Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of The World, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2007) xii + 420 pp pp. 495-496

Roderick Floud

Volume 6, issue 2, 2008

Height, trade, and inequality in the Latin American periphery, 1950-2000 pp. 191-203

Markus Baltzer and Joerg Baten

Obesity among male adolescent migrants in Vienna, Austria pp. 204-211

Sylvia Kirchengast and Edith Schober

Economic transformation and biological welfare in colonial Burma: Regional differentiation in the evolution of average height pp. 212-227

Jean-Pascal Bassino and Peter A. Coclanis

Estimation of secular trends in adult height, and childhood socioeconomic circumstances in three Eastern European populations pp. 228-236

Elizabeth Alice Webb, Diana Kuh, Andrzej Pajak, Ruzena Kubinova, Sofia Malyutina and Martin Bobak

Living standards in Black and White: Evidence from the heights of Ohio Prison inmates, 1829-1913 pp. 237-251

Thomas Maloney and Scott Alan Carson

Determinants of malnutrition in Senegal: Individual, household, community variables, and their interaction pp. 252-263

Sebastian Linnemayr, Harold Alderman and Abdoulaye Ka

Geography of underweight and overweight among women in India: A multilevel analysis of 3204 neighborhoods in 26 states pp. 264-280

Leland K. Ackerson, Ichiro Kawachi, Elizabeth M. Barbeau and S.V. Subramanian

Contingent valuation analysis of willingness to pay to reduce childhood obesity pp. 281-292

John Cawley

Randomized controlled experiments in health and social sciences: Some conceptual issues pp. 293-298

Alok Bhargava

Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS): The first 5 years (2002-2006) of socioeconomic, demographic, and anthropometric data available to the public pp. 299-301

William R. Leonard and Ricardo Godoy

J.C. Riley, Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health A History of Twelve Countries, University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, London (2008) ISBN 978-0-520-25286-8 pp. xvi + 229 incl. index pp. 302-303

Simon Szreter

Erratum for "Twin differences in birth weight: The effects of genotype and prenatal environment on neonatal and post-neonatal mortality" [Econ. Hum. Biol. 4 (2006) 151-183] pp. 304-304

Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully and Neil G. Bennett

Volume 6, issue 1, 2008

Generational effects and gender height dimorphism in contemporary Spain pp. 1-18

Joan Costa-Font and Joan Gil

Social capital externalities and mortality in Sweden pp. 19-42

M. Kamrul Islam, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Bo Gullberg, Martin Lindström and Juan Merlo

On estimators for truncated height samples pp. 43-56

Jan Jacobs, Tomek Katzur and Vincent Tassenaar

Adequacy of dietary intakes and poverty in India: Trends in the 1990s pp. 57-74

Ajay Mahal and Anup K. Karan

Changes in body size, shape and nutritional status of Middle-Class Bengali boys of Kolkata, India, 1982-2002 pp. 75-94

Parasmani Dasgupta, Rana Saha and Maarten Nubé

Economic disadvantage modifies the association of height with low mood in the US, 2004: The disappointment paradox pp. 95-107

Walter Osika and Scott M. Montgomery

Height, health, and income in the US, 1984-2005 pp. 108-126

Inas Rashad

Out-of-pocket health care expenditures due to excess of body weight in Portugal pp. 127-142

Paula Veiga

Evidence on the impact of child labor on child health in Indonesia, 1993-2000 pp. 143-169

François-Charles Wolff and Maliki

Stature, economy and migration during the 19th century: Comparative analysis of Haute-Vienne and Hautes-Alpes, France pp. 170-180

Gilles Boëtsch, Aude Brus and Bruno Ancel

Comparison of self-reported and measured height and weight: Implications for obesity research among young adults pp. 181-190

Maria Enrica Danubio, Gaetano Miranda, Maria Giulia Vinciguerra, Elvira Vecchi and Fabrizio Rufo

Volume 5, issue 3, 2007

Nutrition transition and dietary energy availability in Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism pp. 359-369

Stanley J. Ulijaszek and Slawomir Koziel

Changes in BMI and the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in Cracow, Poland, 1971-2000 pp. 370-378

Maria Chrzanowska, Slawomir Koziel and Stanlej J. Ulijaszek

Determinants of obesity in transition economies: The case of Russia pp. 379-391

Sonya Huffman and Marian Rizov

Obesity in Eastern Europe: An overview of its health and economic implications pp. 392-408

Cecile Knai, Marc Suhrcke and Tim Lobstein

Long-term changes in body weight, BMI, and adiposity rebound among children and adolescents in the Czech republic pp. 409-425

J. Vignerova, L. Humenikova, M. Brabec, J. Riedlova and P. Blaha

Long-term trends in body mass index of children in Jena, Eastern Germany pp. 426-434

Konrad Zellner, Gottfried Ulbricht and Katrin Kromeyer-Hauschild

Childcare, height and BMI among female Polish university students, 2005 pp. 435-442

Iwona Wronka and Romana Pawlinska-Chmara

Frameworks of population obesity and the use of cultural consensus modeling in the study of environments contributing to obesity pp. 443-457

Stanley J. Ulijaszek

Agrarian reforms, agrarian crisis and the biological standard of living in Poland, 1844-1892 pp. 458-470

Michal Kopczynski

Micronutrient deficiency and the prevalence of mothers' overweight/obesity in Egypt pp. 471-483

Abay Asfaw

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

Ralph Shlomowitz

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 pp. 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 pp. 491-493

Ajay Mahal

Volume 5, issue 2, 2007

Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: A multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988-1994) pp. 179-203

D. Phuong Do, Tamara Dubowitz, Chloe E. Bird, Nicole Lurie, Jose J. Escarce and Brian K. Finch

The great transformation: A long-run perspective on physical well-being in Canada pp. 204-228

John Cranfield and Kris Inwood

Toward an anthropometric history of provincial France, 1780-1920 pp. 229-254

Laurent Heyberger

Blood pressure and hypertension in an American colony (Puerto Rico) and on the USA mainland compared, 1886-1930 pp. 255-279

Ricardo Godoy, Elizabeth Goodman, Clarence Gravlee, Richard Levins, Craig Seyfried, Mariana Caram and Naveen Jha

Growth reference centiles and secular changes in Turkish children and adolescents pp. 280-301

Basak Koca Ozer

Urban land rights and child nutritional status in Peru, 2004 pp. 302-321

Tom S. Vogl

Determinants of teenage pregnancies: The case of Busia District in Kenya pp. 322-339

Maureen Were

The evolution of adult height in Europe: A brief note pp. 340-349

Jaume Garcia Villar and Climent Quintana-Domeque

"Infant Mortality in Armenia 1992-2003": A comment pp. 350-354

Gerry Redmond

Reply to Redmond pp. 355-356

Mihran Hakobyan, Ararat Mkrtchyan and Levon Yepiskoposyan

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 pp. 357-358

Sonia R. Zakrzewski

Volume 5, issue 1, 2007

Does body weight affect wages?: Evidence from Europe pp. 1-19

Giorgio Brunello and Béatrice d'Hombres

The vanishing weight gap: Trends in obesity among adult food stamp participants (US) (1976-2002) pp. 20-36

Michele Ver Ploeg, Lisa Mancino, Biing-Hwan Lin and Chia-Yih Wang

Mexican body mass index values in the late-19th-century American West pp. 37-47

Scott Alan Carson

Relationship between early puberty and the risk of hypertension/overweight at age 50: Evidence for a modified Barker hypothesis among Polish youth pp. 48-60

Barbara Hulanicka, Anna Lipowicz, Slawomir Koziel and Alicja Kowalisko

Hypertension among Polish males during the economic transition pp. 61-73

Anna Lipowicz

Does the level of infant mortality affect the rate of decline?: Time series data from 21 countries pp. 74-81

David Bishai, Marjorie Opuni and Andrew Poon

Adult male height in an American colony: Puerto Rico and the USA mainland compared, 1886-1955 pp. 82-99

Ricardo A. Godoy, Elizabeth Goodman, Richard Levins, Mariana Caram and Craig Seyfried

The biological standard of living (and its convergence) in Colombia, 1870-2003: A tropical success story pp. 100-122

A Meisel and Margarita Vega

Birth weight and physical stature in St. Petersburg: Living standards of women in Russia, 1980-2005 pp. 123-143

Boris Mironov

Was there an urban height penalty in Spain, 1840-1913? pp. 144-164

José Martínez-Carrión and Javier Moreno-Lazaro

On the accuracy of perceived parental height in a native Amazonian society pp. 165-178

Ankur M. Patel, Ricardo A. Godoy, Craig Seyfried, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Tomas Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas W. McDade and Susan Tanner