Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9814723 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard H Steckel (National Bureau of Economic Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-198 |
| Publication date | 1986-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Explorations in Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-4983 • E-ISSN: 1090-2457 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0014-4983(86)90012-4 |
| PMID | 11616963 |
| OpenAlex | W2000715480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 75 |
Biology · Birth rate · Environmental health · Family planning · Fertility · Infant mortality · Mortality rate · Population · Pregnancy · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Medicine
Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation
The Metabolic Ghetto
Self-identified race, socially assigned skin tone, and adult physiological dysregulation
Low birth weight of contemporary African Americans
Historiografia sobre o campo de estudos especializado na saúde dos escravos negros
Growth depression and recovery
The Holocaust and New World Slavery
The Holocaust and New World slavery a comparative history
Biology, Diseases, and Economics
Bricks without straw
Mothers and Maternal Grandmothers Kept Children Alive During Slavery
One Giant Leap
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century
A Peculiar Sample
A Peculiar Population
Strategic Ideas in the Rise of the New Anthropometric History and their Implications for Interdisciplinary Research
Biocultural perspectives on stress in prehistoric, historical, and contemporary population research
Measuring misery
Health, human capital, and African-American migration before 1910
Beyond black and white
The poor at birth
Health and disease at a South Carolina plantation
Inferring Fertility from Relative Mortality in Historically Controlled Cemetery Remains from Barbados
"Economic History, Historical Analysis, and the "New History of Capitalism
Diets Versus Diseases
Infant birth weight in Brazil
Children's growth in an adaptive framework
Worldwide Variation in Human Growth
Standards from birth to maturity for height, weight, height velocity, and weight velocity
Standards from birth to maturity for height, weight, height velocity, and weight velocity
Height and Weight Standards for Preschool Children
Roll, Jordan, roll
American Slavery As It Is
Infant mortality and weight at birth
The Biology of Human Starvation
The treatment received by American slaves
A method for assessing age-standardized weight-for-height in children seen cross-sectionally
Increase in length of leg relative to trunk in Japanese children and adults from 1957 to 1977
Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora
Height and Per Capita Income
The Economics of Mortality in North America, 1650–1910
American Negro Slavery
Slave Mortality
Poverty and Physical Stature
The Heights of Slaves in Trinidad
Poverty and Physical Stature
Exploring the Uses of Data on Height
Slave Mortality
Doctors and Slaves
Part 2. Ethnic Group, Education of Mother, and Birth Weight
The demographic rates and social institutions of the nineteenth-century negro population
The impact of breast feeding patterns on the biometric analysis of infant mortality
New Estimates of the Vital Rates of the United States Black Population During the Nineteenth Century
This Species of Property
The Abolitionists
Advice Among Masters
The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility
A Peculiar Population
Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period
Medicine and Slavery
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora
Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests
Fertility Differentials between Slaves in the United States and the British West Indies
The Heights of American Slaves
Health and disease at a South Carolina plantation
The effect of age‐grouping on the distribution of a measurement affected by growth
The Early Achievement of Modern Stature in America
Hog Meat and Hoecake
Growth of the black population inante bellumAmerica, 1820-1860
Growth of the Black Population in ante bellum America, 1820-1860
The Health of Slaves on Southern Plantations
Nutrition and Human Reproduction
Work, Pregnancy, and Infant Mortality among Southern Slaves
Manifests of Slave Shipments Along the Waterways, 1808-1864
Nutritional Trends in Africa and the Americas
Secular Changes in American and British Stature and Nutrition
Medicine and Slavery
The Population History of England 1541-1871. A Reconstruction
The Caribbean Slave
Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,68 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2026 (41) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |