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| Title: | | Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century US white statures  |
| Authors: | | Carson, Scott Alan |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper 2563 |
| Abstract: | | Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that 19th century white statures were positively associated with direct sunlight, which is the primary source of vitamin D in mammals. Stature and insolation are associated with occupations, and workers who spent more time outdoors produced more vitamin D and grew taller. White statures also decreased throughout the 19th century, and this stature diminution is observed across the stature distribution. |
| Subjects: | | 19th US white statures vitamin D solar radiation quantile regression |
| JEL: | | I30 I31 J00 J15 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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