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Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...
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The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have been about 162 cm in the 17th century. This extremely short stature implies that "the crisis of the 17th century" had an immense impact on the human organism itself. The...
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’s milk consumption, increases linear growth and reduces stunting in children by nine percentage points. However, we also find … direct impacts on nutrition in addition to any indirect effects via income. We test this hypothesis in the context of dairy … markets in rural Ethiopia, a context in which markets are very thin, own-consumption shares are very high, and milk is an …
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This study compares the growth of cooperatives with noncooperative. counterparts in seven marketing and distribution … industries. Commodities involved in the study are fruits and vegetables, milk and other dairy products, poultry and eggs, grain …, feed, fertilizer, and petroleum. The cooperatives marketing milk and other dairy products and those distributing fertilizer …
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