@article{BradyGuerraKohleretal.2022,
  author    = {Brady, David and Guerra, Christian and Kohler, Ulrich and Link, Bruce},
  title     = {The long arm of prospective childhood income for mature adult health in the U.S.},
  series = {Journal of health and social behavior},
  volume    = {63},
  journal   = {Journal of health and social behavior},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Sage},
  address   = {Los Angeles},
  issn      = {0022-1465},
  doi       = {10.1177/00221465221081094},
  pages     = {543 -- 559},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Pioneering scholarship links retrospective childhood conditions to mature adult health. We distinctively provide critical evidence with prospective state-of-the-art measures of parent income observed multiple times during childhood in the 1970s to 1990s. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we analyze six health outcomes (self-rated health, heart attack, stroke, life-threatening chronic conditions, non-life-threatening chronic conditions, and psychological distress) among 40- to 65-year-olds. Parent relative income rank has statistically and substantively significant relationships with five of six outcomes. The relationships with heart attack, stroke, and life-threatening chronic conditions are particularly strong. Parent income rank performs slightly better than alternative prospective and retrospective measures. At the same time, we provide novel validation on which retrospective measures (i.e., father's education) perform almost as well as prospective measures. Furthermore, we inform several perennial debates about how relative versus absolute income and other measures of socioeconomic status and social class influence health.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HermanussenScheffler2022,
  author    = {Hermanussen, Michael and Scheffler, Christiane},
  title     = {Evidence of chronic undernutrition in late 19th century German infants of all social classes},
  series = {Human biology and public health},
  volume    = {2022},
  journal   = {Human biology and public health},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2748-9957},
  doi       = {10.52905/hbph2022.2.42},
  pages     = {9},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {125 years ago, European infants grew differently from modern infants. We show weight gains of 20 healthy children weighed longitudinally from birth to age 1 year, published by Camerer in 1882. The data illustrate the historically prevalent concepts of infant nutrition practiced by German civil servants, lawyers, merchants, university professors, physicians, foresters and farmers. Breastfeeding by the mother was not truly appreciated in those days; children were often breastfed by wet nurses or received bottled milk. Bottle feeding mainly used diluted cow's milk with some added carbohydrates, without evidence that appropriate amounts of oil, butter or other fatty components were added. French children from 1914 showed similar weight gain patterns suggesting similar feeding practices. The historical data suggest that energy deficient infant formula was fed regularly in the late 19th and early 20th century Europe, regardless of wealth and social class. The data question current concerns that temporarily feeding energy deficient infant formula may warrant serious anxieties regarding long-term cognitive, social and emotional behavioral development.},
  language  = {en}
}