The Oxford Handbook of Economics and Human Biology

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.

"[T]he book effectively discusses and illustrates some of the main challenges in economics and human biology. I would recommend this book to any reader who is interested in economics and human biology, although, this book is especially interesting for researchers who plan to conduct research in this field." --Journal of Economic Literature

• PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS AND HUMAN BIOLOGY IntroductionJohn Komlos and Inas R. Kelly 1. Growth Faltering in the First Thousand Days after Conception and Catch-up GrowthJere Behrman 2. Biological Measures of Well-BeingRichard Steckel 3. Crisis and Human BiologyPrashant 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 BiologyGregory 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 obesityDarius Lakdawalla and Julian Reif 8. Inequality and HeightsMatthias Blum 9. Adult Weight and Height of Native PopulationsAsher Rosinger and Ricardo Godoy 10. Slave HeightsRichard Steckel 11. Female Heights and Economic Development: Theory and PracticeDeborah Oxley 12. The Impact of Socioeconomic Inequality On Children's Health and WellbeingBaltica Cabieses, Kate E. Pickett, and Richard G. Wilkinson 13. Growth and Maturation of Children and Adolescents: Variability Due to Genetic and Environmental FactorsAlan Rogol 14. Global Perspectives on Economics and BiologyNicholas Meinzer and Jörg Baten 15. Global BMI TrendsKatrin Kromeyer-Hauschild, Anja Moss, and Martin Wabitsch 16. Poverty and Obesity in Developed CountriesChad D. Meyerhoefer and Muzhe Yang PART III: BIOLOGICAL MEASURES AS AN INPUT TO MONETARY OUTCOMES, PRODUCTIVITY, AND WELFARE 17. Biomarkers as InputsSteven Lehrer 18. How Genetics Can Inform Health EconomicsGeorge Wehby 19. Twins Studies in EconomicsJere Behrman 20. Public and Private Returns to Investing in NutritionHarold Alderman and David E. Sahn 21. The Double Burden of MalnutritionSusan L. Averett and Yang Wang 22. Biological health risks and economic developmentElizabeth Frankenberg, Jessica Ho, and Duncan Thomas 23. Obesity and Income Inequality in OECD CountriesDejun Su 24. Height and WagesOlaf Hübler 25. Why do people with higher body weight earn lower wages?Jane Greve 26. Wealth and WeightJay L. Zagorsky 27. Family Economics and ObesitySven E. Wilson 28. Obesity and Welfare RegimesAvner Offer 29. Children's Anthropometrics and Later Disease Incidence Karri Silventoinen 30. Birth Weight as an Indicator of Human WelfareW. Peter Ward 31. A Pound of Flesh: birth weight as a measure of endowment in economics researchFlorencia Torche and Dalton Conley 32. Neuroeconomics: A Flourishing FieldJason A. Aimone and Daniel Houser PART IV: REGIONAL STUDIES 33. The African Enigma: The Mystery of Tall African Adults Despite Low IncomesAlexander Moradi and Kalle Hirvonen 34. East Asia on the Rise: The Anthropometric History of China, Japan, and KoreaDaniel Jong Schwekendiek 35. Economics and Human Biology in Latin AmericaMoramay López-Alonso 36. Racial Differences in Health in the USA: A Long-Run PerspectiveLeah Boustan and Robert A. Margo 37. Antebellum Puzzle: The Decline in Heights at the Onset of Modern Economic GrowthLee A. Craig 38. The Anthropometric History of the Mediterranean WorldBrian A'Hearn