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Informationen zum Autor John Komlos is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Economic History at the University of Munich. He has also taught at Duke University, Harvard University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Vienna. He received PhDs in both history and economics from the University of Chicago. Komlos founded the field of Economics and Human Biology with the journal of the same name in 2003. He is among the very few scholars to publish in major journals of five disciplines: economics, history, biology, statistics, and demography. His work has been cited extensively around the globe.Inas R. Kelly is Associate Professor of Economics at Queens College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is a research associate in the Health Economics program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and has been co-editor of the journal Economics and Human Biology since January 2013. She has published extensively in the field of health economics. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology enhances understanding of how economic conditions influence human well-being and how human health shapes such economic outcomes as wealth. The volume contains cutting-edge reviews from the major thought leaders in the field. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology enhances understanding of how economic conditions influence human well-being and how human health shapes such economic outcomes as wealth. The volume contains cutting-edge reviews from the major thought leaders in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS AND HUMAN BIOLOGY Introduction John Komlos and Inas R. Kelly 1. Growth Faltering in the First Thousand Days after Conception and Catch-up Growth Jere Behrman 2. Biological Measures of Well-Being Richard Steckel 3. Crisis and Human Biology Prashant Bharadwaj and Tom Vogl 4. The biological standard of living in Europe from the Late Iron Age to the Little Ice Age Nikola Koepke 5. Econometrics of Economics and Human Biology Gregory Colman and Dhaval Dave PART II: BIOLOGICAL MEASURES AS AN OUTCOME 6. Body Mass Index Through Time Scott A. Carson 7. Health, body weight, and obesity Darius Lakdawalla and Julian Reif 8. Inequality and Heights Matthias Blum 9. Adult Weight and Height of Native Populations Asher Rosinger and Ricardo Godoy 10. Slave Heights Richard Steckel 11. Female Heights and Economic Development: Theory and Practice Deborah Oxley 12. The Impact of Socioeconomic Inequality On Children's Health and Wellbeing Baltica Cabieses, Kate E. Pickett, and Richard G. Wilkinson 13. Growth and Maturation of Children and Adolescents: Variability Due to Genetic and Environmental Factors Alan Rogol 14. Global Perspectives on Economics and Biology Nicholas Meinzer and Jörg Baten 15. Global BMI Trends Katrin Kromeyer-Hauschild, Anja Moss, and Martin Wabitsch 16. Poverty and Obesity in Developed Countries Chad D. Meyerhoefer and Muzhe Yang PART III: BIOLOGICAL MEASURES AS AN INPUT TO MONETARY OUTCOMES, PRODUCTIVITY, AND WELFARE 17. Biomarkers as Inputs Steven Lehrer 18. How Genetics Can Inform Health Economics George Wehby 19. Twins Studies in Economics Jere Behrman 20. Public and Private Returns to Investing in Nutrition Harold Alderman and David E. Sahn 21. The Double Burden of Malnutrition Susan L. Averett and Yang Wang 22. Biological health risks and economic development Elizabeth Frankenberg, Jessica Ho, and Duncan Thomas 23. Obesity and Income Inequality in OECD Countries Dejun Su 24. Height and Wages Olaf Hübler 25. Why do people with higher body weight earn lower wages? Jane Greve 26. Wealth and Weight Jay L. Zagorsky 27. Family Economics and Obesity<...
