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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

NBER Publications by Richard H. Steckel

Working Papers and Chapters

December 2008Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions
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December 2004Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves
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February 2004The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America
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March 2003What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists?
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October 2001Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
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February 2000Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses
with Carolyn M. Moehling: h0122
January 2000Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States
with Michael R. Haines: h0121
August 1999Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective
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December 1998The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century
with Joseph M. Prince: h0112
January 1997Front matter "Health and Welfare during Industrialization"
with Roderick Floud
in Health and Welfare during Industrialization, Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud, Eds.
Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization"
with Roderick Floud
in Health and Welfare during Industrialization, Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud, Eds.
Conclusions
with Roderick Floud
in Health and Welfare during Industrialization, Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud, Eds.
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States
with Dora Costa
in Health and Welfare during Industrialization, Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud, Eds.
Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden!
with Lars Sandberg
in Health and Welfare during Industrialization, Richard H. Steckel and Roderick Floud, Eds.
November 1995Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States
with Dora L. Costa: h0076
October 1995Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research
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August 1992Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland
with S. Nicolas: h0039
Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey
with Jayanthi Krishnan: w4137
January 1992The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses
in Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel, Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff, editors
Stature and Living Standards in the United States
in American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War, Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis, editors
April 1991Stature and Living Standards in the United States
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December 1989Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860
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June 1987Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: The United States, 1850-1860
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October 1986Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: The Case of American Slaves
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July 1985Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves
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1985Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade
with Richard A. Jensen: w1540
April 1983The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century
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February 1983Height and Per Capita Income
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May 1982Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height...
with Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, Roderick Floud, James Trussell: w0890

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