markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a … market is isolated from the rest of East Africa and internally fragmented …

nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …

. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and … cognitive development of lower socioeconomic status children who reached maturity in the mid-20th century …

expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life … expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers … in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South …

research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …