Using Cox regression, this paper shows a weak association between having tuberculosis
and dying from influenza among Union Army veterans in late nineteenth-century America. It …

The study explores the long-term trends in socioeconomic differences in height among
young adult men. We linked information from conscript inspections to a longitudinal …

Much of the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been in developing
countries with a history of famines and malnutrition. This paper is the first to examine …

This article overviews the research opportunities made possible by a National Institute on
Aging-funded program project, Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging …

ABSTRACT I document the transmission of a grandfather's net nutritional deprivation in
young adulthood across multiple generations using the grandfather's ex-POW status in the …

When the Early Indicators project b senior investigators and four consul economists, one
was a demographer, thropology, and five were physicians. flected the central role assigned …

This paper explores the relationship between BMI and several health conditions among
Union Army veterans who had medical examinations between 1891 and 1905. We find that …

On the basis of a historical review of the BMI trend among white male Americans since the
late 19th century, this paper investigates the association between BMI measured at age 50 …

In this paper, I supplement widely used demographic data on white veterans of the Union
Army with large and newly collected data on blacks and urban white veterans to explore the …

The “Antebellum Puzzle” has been the subject of comment since the 1980s. It involves the
paradox that, although the American economy was experiencing rapid economic growth in …