Publisher Summary This chapter outlines the economic models for understanding the
empirical regularities in fertility in low-income countries. Applications of microeconomics to …

This chapter takes an analytical look at the potential role of agriculture in contributing to
economic growth, and develops a framework for understanding and quantifying this …

Wealthier nations are healthier nations. Figure 1 displays the association between per
capita income1 and two measures of a country's health, infant mortality and life expectancy …

This paper traces the history of prices and wages in European cities from the fourteenth
century to the First World War. It is shown that the divergence in real incomes observed in …

Первое в мировой историографии фундаментальное исследование по исторической
антропометрии России за 1701-1917 гг. Мобилизовав огромный материал-306 тыс …

The Roman father, with his monopoly of property rights and power of life and death over his
children, has been prominent in the formulation of the concept of patriarchy in European …

This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a
cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity, quality and availability, and the impact …

Using data from rural Bangladesh, we explore the hypothesis that women attain less
schooling as a result of social and financial pressure to marry young. We isolate the causal …

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives
than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists …

A realistic yet encouraging look at how society can change in ways that will allow us to feed
an expanding global population. This book addresses the question of how we can best feed …