Arbeitspapier
Nineteenth Century White Physical Activity and Calories: Socioeconomic Status and Diets
Using data from late 19th and early 20th century US prisons, this study estimates the basal metabolic rates and calories for Americans of European descent. Throughout the 19th century, white basal metabolic rates (BMRs) and calories declined across their respective distributions, and much of the decrease coincides with economic development. White life expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South consumed the most calories per day, while Northeastern urban whites consumed the least.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4886
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health: General
Health and Economic Development
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- Subject
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nineteenth century US diets
physical activity
nutrition
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Carson, Scott A.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2014
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Carson, Scott A.
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2014
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