In our opinion, the trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated accurately. We use five models to estimate the BMI trends of non-Hispanic US-born black and white children and adolescents ages 2-19 born 1941-2006 on the basis of all NHES and NHANES data sets. We also use some...

We examine the height of non-Hispanic US-born children born 1942-2002 on the basis of all NHES and NHANES data sets available. We use the CDC 2000 reference values to convert height into Height-for-Age z-scores stratified by gender. We decompose deviations from the reference values into an...

Background: The trend in the BMI values of US children has not been estimated very convincingly because of the absence of longitudinal data. Our object is to estimate time series of BMI values by birth cohorts instead of measurement years. Methods: We use five regression models to estimate the...

This paper places the competitive firm under output price uncertainty in a standard efficiency wage model, wherein the work effort of labor depends on the wage rate set by the firm. Irrespective of the availability of a commodity futures market, we show that the Solow condition holds in that the...

Obesity among children and adolescents is a growing public health burden. According to a national reference among German children and adolescents aged 3-17 years, 15% are overweight (including obese) and 6.3% are obese. This study aims to assess the economic burden associated with overweight and...

Cet article décrit un modèle démo-économique à deux secteurs (agricole et non agricole) appliqué à l'Europe pour la période allant de la révolution agricole du néolithique à la Révolution Industrielle. Le modèle décrit le conflit permanent qui existe entre l'accroissement...

Un indicateur économique comme le PNB par habitant ne permet qu'une estimation imparfaite de l'évolution des niveaux de vie des populations au XIX[e] siècle. Depuis vingt ans, les historiens économistes utilisent systématiquement les données sur la taille des individus pour évaluer le...