Richard H. Steckel
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- PhD Economics University of Chicago
- Masters Economics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Hall Steckel is an American heterodox economist with a focus on economic history. Steckel is the SBS Distinguished Professor of Economics, Anthropology and History at Ohio State University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research . He is well known for his work on health and well-being, in which he is a major contributor to anthropometric history along with John Komlos. Their work was highlighted in a 1996 Time magazine front page article. Between 2004 and 2005 he served as president of the Social Science History Association.
Richard H. Steckel's Published Works
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Published Works
- Stature and the Standard of Living (1995) (1257)
- Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions (2008) (475)
- Health and Welfare during Industrialization (1997) (417)
- Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States (1995) (264)
- A Peculiar Population: The Nutrition, Health, and Mortality of American Slaves from Childhood to Maturity (1986) (236)
- Slave height profiles from coastwise manifests. (1979) (210)
- Biological measures of the standard of living. (2008) (208)
- Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrializations, 1770–1815 (1991) (200)
- The Heights of American Slaves: New Evidence on Slave Nutrition and Health (1982) (192)
- The Backbone of History: NATIVE AMERICANS IN NORTH AMERICA (2002) (188)
- Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period (1983) (184)
- Height and Per Capita Income (1982) (152)
- How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: Malnutrition: Global Economic Losses Attributable to Malnutrition 1900–2000 and Projections to 2050 (2013) (138)
- Growth depression and recovery: the remarkable case of American slaves. (1987) (136)
- Skeletal health in the Western Hemisphere from 4000 B.C. to the present (2002) (132)
- Heights and economic history: the Swedish case. (1987) (104)
- The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century (1998) (102)
- A Dreadful Childhood: The Excess Mortality of American Slaves (1986) (100)
- Was Industrialization Hazardous to Your Health? Not in Sweden! (1997) (99)
- The Backbone of History: A Health Index from Skeletal Remains (2002) (94)
- New Light on the “Dark Ages” (2004) (80)
- The economic foundations of East-West migration during the 19th century (1983) (77)
- Young adult mortality following severe physiological stress in childhood: skeletal evidence. (2005) (77)
- Rising Inequality: Trends In The Distribution Of Wealth In Industrializing New England (2001) (77)
- The age of slaves at menarche and their first birth. (1978) (74)
- New Evidence on the Causes of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade (1986) (68)
- The Quality of Census Data for Historical Inquiry: A Research Agenda (1991) (67)
- Nutritional Success on the Great Plains: Nineteenth-Century Equestrian Nomads (2002) (64)
- Stature and Living Standards in the United States (1991) (63)
- The Backbone of History: Patterns of Health in the Western Hemisphere (2002) (60)
- Birth weights and infant mortality among American slaves. (1986) (58)
- Poverty and Prosperity: a Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860 (1989) (57)
- Census Matching and Migration: A Research Strategy (1988) (57)
- Diets Versus Diseases: The Anthropometrics of Slave Children (2000) (54)
- The Health and Mortality of Women and Children, 1850–1860 (1988) (54)
- Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research (1995) (52)
- Strategic Ideas in the Rise of the New Anthropometric History and their Implications for Interdisciplinary Research (1998) (50)
- Height as a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability (2010) (48)
- Slave Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records (1979) (46)
- A Biohistory of Health and Behavior in the Georgia Bight: The Agricultural Transition and the Impact of European Contact (2002) (46)
- Soldier, soldier, what made you grow so tall? A study of height, health and nutrition in Sweden, 1720-1881. (1980) (43)
- Industrialization and Health in Historical Perspective (1999) (43)
- Household migration and rural settlement in the United States, 1850-1860 (1989) (41)
- Overpopulation and malnutrition rediscovered: Hard times in 19th-century Sweden (1988) (39)
- Tall but Poor: Living Standards of Men and Women in Pre-famine Ireland (1997) (38)
- Diets versus Diseases in the Anthropometrics of Slave Children: A Reply (2000) (36)
- Census Manuscript Schedules Matched with Property Tax Lists: A Source of Information on Long-Term Trends in Wealth Inequality (1994) (36)
- Nutritional Status in the Colonial American Economy (1999) (34)
- The Backbone of History: The Health of Slaves and Free Blacks in the East (2002) (33)
- The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present (2011) (31)
- The Economic Foundations of East-West Migration During the Nineteenth Century (1982) (29)
- Height, Human Capital, and Earnings: The Contributions of Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability (2015) (29)
- Engines of Growth: Farm Tractors and Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare (2012) (29)
- Data Collection Codebook (2018) (27)
- The Fertility Transition in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses (1992) (27)
- Determinants of Slave and Crew Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade (1985) (26)
- Wealth Mobility in America: A View from the National Longitudinal Survey (1992) (25)
- Biological Measures of Economic History (2013) (24)
- The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern White Fertility (1978) (23)
- A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present. (2003) (22)
- Property rights and economic development: the legacy of Japanese colonial institutions (2010) (22)
- Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America: The Skeletal Evidence (2005) (22)
- Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States (2009) (21)
- The Age at Leaving Home in the United States, 1850–1860 (1996) (21)
- New Light on the "Dark Ages": The Remarkably Tall Stature of Northern European Men during the Medieval Era (2004) (20)
- Making Money While Making a Difference: How to Profit with a Nonprofit Partner (1999) (20)
- Birth weights and stillbirths in historical perspective. (1998) (20)
- Big Social Science History (2007) (19)
- Doing Best by Doing Good: How to Use Public-Purpose Partnerships to Boost Corporate Profits and Benefit Your Community (1992) (19)
- Fluctuations in a Dreadful Childhood: Synthetic Longitudinal Height Data, Relative Prices and Weather in the Short-Term Health of American Slaves (2004) (17)
- What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists? (2003) (17)
- Social and Economic Effects on Growth (2013) (14)
- Trader Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves (2016) (13)
- The History of European Health Project: a history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present. (2009) (13)
- Inequality Amidst Nutritional Abundance: Native Americans on the Great Plains (2010) (13)
- A Population History of the United States (2005) (13)
- The Wealth Mobility of Men and Women During the 1960s and 1970s (2006) (11)
- The hidden cost of moving up: Type 2 diabetes and the escape from persistent poverty in the American South (2013) (11)
- Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions (2010) (11)
- Agricultural Specialization, Urbanization, Workload, and Stature (2018) (10)
- Antebellum Southern White Fertility: A Demographic and Economic Analysis (1980) (10)
- A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and Coastal Shipments in the Westward Movement of Slaves (2013) (10)
- Multidimensional Patterns of European Health, Work, and Violence over the Past Two Millennia (2018) (9)
- New Perspectives on the Standard of Living (1995) (9)
- Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland (1992) (9)
- Miscegenation and the American Slave Schedules (1980) (9)
- The fertility of American slaves. (1982) (9)
- Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mid-Eighteenth Century: A Prelimanary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height.. (1982) (8)
- Introduction to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" (1997) (7)
- Human Capital and Institutions: Extending the Reach of Anthropometric History to the Distant Past (2009) (7)
- Household Migration, Urban Growth, and Industrialization: the United States, 1850-1860 (1987) (7)
- MIGRATION AND POLITICAL CONFLICT : PRECINCTS IN THE MIDWEST ON THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR (1998) (6)
- Biological Measures of Well-Being (2016) (5)
- Slave Marriage and the Family (1980) (5)
- The Short and the Tall: Comparing Stature and Socioeconomic Status for Male Prison and Military Populations (2020) (5)
- Historical Origins of a Major Killer: Cardiovascular Disease in the American South (2015) (5)
- Filthy rich and other nonprofit fantasies : changing the way nonprofits do business in the 90's (1989) (5)
- Heights, Living Standards, and History (1991) (5)
- The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America (2004) (5)
- In memory of Robert William Fogel. (2014) (4)
- Historical Perspective on the Standard of Living Using Anthropometric Data (2004) (4)
- Measuring Residential Segregation (2013) (3)
- Doing Good in Challenging Times: How Nonprofits Can Profit. (1992) (3)
- In search of America's best nonprofits (1997) (3)
- Commentary 5 (2003) (2)
- Measuring Community Health Using Skeletal Remains (2018) (2)
- The Economics of Climate Change (2011) (2)
- A Deplorable Scarcity: The Failure of Industrialization in the Slave Economy.Fred Bateman , Thomas Weiss (1984) (2)
- The Backbone of History: Introduction (2002) (2)
- Bones , and States : A New Approach to the Neolithic Revolution (2007) (2)
- Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History. By James C. Riley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 243. $49.95, cloth; $16.95, paper. (2002) (2)
- The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (2018) (2)
- Front matter to "Health and Welfare during Industrialization" (1997) (2)
- Entrepreneurial Activity and Wealth Inequality: A Historical Perspective (2004) (2)
- Hard times in 19th-century Sweden: A reply (1990) (2)
- The carbohydrate metabolism of the Brown-Pearce carcinoma of the rabbit in normal and hypoglycemic serum. (1951) (1)
- Filthy Rich and Other Nonprofit Fantasies: Changing the Way You Do Business. (1990) (1)
- Health Indicators of the Standard of Living (2014) (1)
- Filthy Rich and Other Nonprofit Fantasies: Creating the Fantasy. (1990) (1)
- To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North . By Lee A. Craig · Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. xii + 161 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.50. ISBN 0-8018-4529-7. (1994) (1)
- Wealth Inequality Trends in Industrializing New England: New Evidence and Tests of Competing Hypotheses (2000) (1)
- Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves (1985) (1)
- Patriarchy and Fertility: Japan and Sweden, 1880–1960. By Carl Mosk. Orlando: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 320. $41.50 (1987) (1)
- Life under Pressure: Intergenerational Origins of Hypertension among African Americans (2015) (1)
- Demography and Slavery (2010) (1)
- Estimating Neonatal Mortality Rates from the Heights of Children: the Case of American Slaves (1985) (1)
- The History of Violence in Europe (2018) (1)
- Slavery and Discrimination (2018) (1)
- The hidden cost of moving up: Type 2 diabetes and the escape from persistent poverty in the American South: Hidden Cost of Moving Up (2013) (0)
- Anthropometrics (2011) (0)
- Virginia Slave-Trade Statistics 1698–1775. By Walter Michinton, Celia King, and Peter Waite. Rchmond: Virginia State Library, 1984. Pp. xvi, 218. $45.00 (1985) (0)
- Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico, 1850–1950. Edited by Moramay López-Alonso. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2012. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7316-4. $65.00 (cloth). (2013) (0)
- Facing the "King of Terrors": Death and Society in an American Community, 1750-1990 (Book) (2002) (0)
- Assessing Long-Term Trends in Health (2015) (0)
- Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. By Michael Tadman. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. Pp. xviii, 317. $27.75 (1991) (0)
- SSH volume 17 issue 2 Cover and Back matter (1993) (0)
- Measuring Social Performance over the Millennia: The Long-Term Decline in Health in Pre-Columbian America (2003) (0)
- Database Creation, Management, and Analysis (2018) (0)
- Discussion of "Spirit Leveling of the United States Geological Survey" (0)
- Faulkner's South: Is There Truth in Fiction? (2019) (0)
- Filthy rich : how to turn your nonprofit fantasies into cold, hard cash (2000) (0)
- Developmental Origins of Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding High Mortality Rates in the American South (2015) (0)
- Anthropometric History in American Economic History (2018) (0)
- Carcinoma of the Rabbit in Normal and TT 1 †¢ C ' * riypogiycemic @ erum (2006) (0)
- Front matter, table of contents, foreword (2011) (0)
- Migration and Political Conflict: Precincts in the (1998) (0)
- Medicine and American Growth, 1800–1860. By James H. Cassedy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. Pp. xvii, 298. $39.50 cloth, $19.95 paper (1987) (0)
- Wages and Markets in the United States, 1820-1860 (review) (2001) (0)
- The European History of Health Project (2018) (0)
- Sweet Blood: (0)
- Methodological Perspectives on the Second Epidemiologic Transition (2014) (0)
- The impact (?) of fine arts on the art of medicine. (2005) (0)
- Menopause : Adaptation or Epiphenomenon ? (2001) (0)
- The Backbone of History: Preface (2002) (0)
- Society and Family Strategy: Erie County, New York, 1850–1920. By Mark J. Stern. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 172. $39.50 (1988) (0)
- Traders, Planters, and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America. By David W. Galenson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 230. $34.50 (1987) (0)
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