@techreport{Carson2007Health,
abstract = {The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economic history. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One example is African-Americans in the US Northeast and Middle Atlantic states during the 1800s. Here, a new data is used from the Pennsylvania state prison to track black and white male heights incarcerated between 1829 to 1909. Throughout the century, and controlling for a number of characteristics, Pennsylvania black men in were shorter than white men. The well-known mid-century height decline is confirmed among white men, however, extended to blacks as well.},
address = {M\"{u}nchen},
author = {Scott Alan Carson},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {N31; J15; J70; I12; I31; 330},
language = {eng},
number = {1975},
publisher = {CESifo},
title = {Health during industrialization: evidence from the 19th century Pennsylvania state prison system},
type = {CESifo working paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26020},
year = {2007}
}
