Economic Welfare and Health During Development: Height Variation by Nutrition, Disease, and the Physical Environment Using Prison Data

Carson, Scott Alan

In this book, Scott Alan Carson consider the relationship between economic development and net nutrition. Highlighting new health patterns found from a thorough analysis of more than 320,000 height observations across imprisoned individuals and the general public in the 19th- and 20th-century United States, the book highlights a new history of United States net nutrition, health, and urbanization.

The book begins with historical observations regarding wealth, income, agricultural productivity, transportation revolution, and disease in urban landscapes. Chapters span the Barker hypothesis, nutritional variations by region, migratory patterns, and domestic residence. Analyzing data related to height, race, gender, socioeconomic status, and disease, Carson reveals previously unexplored and undetected health variation. The book examines the historical health of the American populace during industrialization as it relates to broader economic change and public well-being.

Exploring the human cost of urbanization, the book offers economists, anthropometric researchers, economic historians, and anthropologists a new way to conceptualize the relationship between historical health data and urbanization.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2026-11-07

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783032287687

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Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

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