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| Title: | | Nineteenth century black and white US statures: the primary sources of vitamin D and their relationship with height  |
| Authors: | | Carson, Scott Alan |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper 2497 |
| Abstract: | | Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and whites by the primary sources of vitamin D production: time exposed to solar radiation, skin pigmentation, and nativity. Greater insolation (vitamin D production) is documented here to be associated with taller black and white statures, and a considerable share of the stature differential by socioeconomic status was related to insolation. |
| Subjects: | | Socioeconomic status vitamin D insolation 19th century US statures |
| JEL: | | I10 J01 J15 J16 N81 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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