Brian Marein
Biographic Data
| ID | 5029232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Marein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Marein |
| SIGNATURE | MAREIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4001-7045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The decline of child stunting in 122 countries: A systematic review of child growth studies since the 19th century
INTRODUCTION: Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in 2022; however, trends before the mid-1980s are unclear, including whether child stunting was previously prevalent in current high-income countries (HICs). We conducted a systematic review of child growth studies before 1990 to reconstruct historical…
Narrow Paths Out of Poverty and Educational Demand: Evidence from Dominican Baseball
Do narrow, or improbable, paths out of poverty, such as those in sports and entertainment, reduce the demand for schooling? We study the effect of professional baseball on educational attainment in the Dominican Republic, where all Major League Baseball (MLB) teams recruit teenage boys. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to MLB’s sudden entry into the Dominican Republic based on preexisting local baseball cultures and leverage t…
A comment on “Height and the standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish Enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924”
Public health departments and the mortality transition in Latin America: Evidence from Puerto Rico
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality
Economic development in Puerto Rico after US annexation: Anthropometric evidence
Economic development in Puerto Rico after US annexation: Anthropometric evidence
Public health departments and the mortality transition in Latin America: Evidence from Puerto Rico
Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality
A comment on “Height and the standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish Enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924”
Narrow Paths Out of Poverty and Educational Demand: Evidence from Dominican Baseball
Do narrow, or improbable, paths out of poverty, such as those in sports and entertainment, reduce the demand for schooling? We study the effect of professional baseball on educational attainment in the Dominican Republic, where all Major League Baseball (MLB) teams recruit teenage boys. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to MLB’s sudden entry into the Dominican Republic based on preexisting local baseball cultures and leverage t…
The decline of child stunting in 122 countries: A systematic review of child growth studies since the 19th century
INTRODUCTION: Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in 2022; however, trends before the mid-1980s are unclear, including whether child stunting was previously prevalent in current high-income countries (HICs). We conducted a systematic review of child growth studies before 1990 to reconstruct historical…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Annexation (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works)