How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …

-random variation from an insurance expansion targeted at poor households in Peru to investigate its effects on nutrition related …

lower weights than rural residents. Urban net nutrition varied by race, and urban whites and blacks had lower BMIs, shorter … statures, and lower weights compared to their rural counterparts. Urban male net nutrition experienced greater variation than …

, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net nutrition. Little is known about how weights varied among Mexicans … height and age, two uncontrollable characteristics, indicating that 19th century Mexican current net nutrition varied the …

A population's weight conditioned on height reflects its current net nutrition and demonstrates health variation during … economic development. This study builds on the use of weight as a measure for current net nutrition and uses a difference …-in-decompositions technique to illustrate how black and white current net nutrition varied with the transition to free-labor. Adult black age …

Average stature reflects cumulative net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces a … difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African-American cumulative net nutrition was comparable … to working class whites, it was made worse-off with the transition to free-labor. Average stature reflects net nutrition …

The body mass index (BMI) reflects current net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces … a difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African-American current net nutrition was … comparable to working class whites, it was made worse-off with the transition to free-labor. BMI reflects net nutrition over the …

movements may have affected farmer and non-farmer's net nutrition. Despite 19th and early 20th century US political movements …

the physical environment. This study evaluates 19th century macro-level nutrition and diseases associated with US BMI … effect on net-nutrition than cholera. After controlling for nutrition and disease, black BMIs and weights were greater than …