Author Page for Richard H. Steckel

Life under Pressure: Intergenerational Origins of Hypertension among African Americans

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2022

Garrett Senney, Kent Thornburg and Richard H. Steckel

Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Oregon Health and Science University - Center for Developmental Health at the Knight Cardiovascular Institute and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Height and Per Capita Income

NBER Working Paper No. w0880

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland

NBER Working Paper No. h0039

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2023

S. Nicholas and Richard H. Steckel

Independent and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century

NBER Working Paper No. h0112

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2022

Joseph M. Prince and Richard H. Steckel

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South

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Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 07 May 2015 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2022

Richard H. Steckel and Garrett Senney

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

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Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South

NBER Working Paper No. w21809

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2023

Richard H. Steckel and Garrett Senney

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

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Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. h0118

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 May 2010 Last Revised: 10 May 2023

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. h0076

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Mar 2000 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2023

Dora L. Costa and Richard H. Steckel

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves

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Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves

NBER Working Paper No. w10993

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2010

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves

NBER Working Paper No. w10993

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe

NBER Working Paper No. w8542

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Oct 2001 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions

NBER Working Paper No. w14536

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 10 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability

NBER Working Paper No. w16570

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023

Andreas Schick and Richard H. Steckel

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade

NBER Working Paper No. w1540

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 11 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2022

Richard H. Steckel and Richard A. Jensen

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and University of Notre Dame - Department of Economics

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Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare

NBER Working Paper No. w17879

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 10 May 2026

Richard H. Steckel and William White

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

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Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height..

NBER Working Paper No. w0890

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 30 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2022

Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, Roderick Floud, Richard H. Steckel, James Trussell, Kenneth Wachter, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Georgia C. Villaflor, Robert A. Margo and Gerald Friedman

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Rochester - Department of Economics, London Metropolitan University, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics, Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Independent, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Boston University - Department of Economics and University of Massachusetts at Amherst - College of Social and Behavioral Sciences - Department of Economics

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The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America

NBER Working Paper No. w10299

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Feb 2004 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research

NBER Working Paper No. h0075

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 May 2000 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2023

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century

NBER Working Paper No. w0881

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses

NBER Working Paper No. h0122

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 May 2000 Last Revised: 04 May 2023

Richard H. Steckel and Carolyn M. Moehling

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Rutgers University, Department of Economics

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Stature and Living Standards in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. h0024

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 21 May 2000 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2023

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions

NBER Working Paper No. w16551

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2023

Dongwoo Yoo and Richard H. Steckel

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey

NBER Working Paper No. w4137

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 May 2007 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022

Richard H. Steckel and Jayanthi Krishnan

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Temple University - Department of Accounting

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Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w15596

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2023

John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff and Richard H. Steckel

Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway - Faculty of Arts and Sciences-New Brunswick/Piscataway - Department of Economics, Newark College of Arts & Sciences - Department of Economics and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves

NBER Working Paper No. w1662

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 11 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists?

NBER Working Paper No. w9519

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: the United States, 1850-1860

NBER Working Paper No. w2281

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 May 2004 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860

NBER Working Paper No. h0008

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2023

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: the Case of American Slaves

NBER Working Paper No. w1628

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 22 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2022

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Childhood Mortality & Nutritional Status as Indicators of Standard of Living: Evidence from World War I Recruits in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. h0121

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 May 2011 Last Revised: 03 May 2026

Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel

Colgate University - Economics Department and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Biological Measures of Economic History

Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 5, pp. 401-423, 2013

Posted: 07 Aug 2013

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Entrepreneurial Activity and Wealth Inequality: A Historical Perspective

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship

Posted: 04 Nov 2009

Carolyn M. Moehling and Richard H. Steckel

Rutgers University, Department of Economics and Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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Young Adult Mortality Following Severe Physiological Stress in Childhood: Skeletal Evidence

Economics & Human Biology, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 314-328, July 2005

Posted: 04 Apr 2006

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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A History of Health in Europe from the Late Paleolithic Era to the Present

Posted: 21 Mar 2003

Richard H. Steckel

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

Richard H. Steckel

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics

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