Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62327 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3913
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Little research exists on late 19th and early 20th century US body mass index value differences by race, and darker complexions were associated with greater BMI values. Mulattos had greater BMI returns associated with socioeconomic characteristics, indicating that while blacks had greater BMIs than fairer complexioned whites and mulattos, part of the difference was offset by socioeconomic characteristics that favored fairer complexions. Black, mulatto, and white BMIs declined between 1860 and 1920, and farmers had greater BMIs than workers in other occupations.
Subjects: 
nineteenth century US race relations
body mass index
biological inequality
JEL: 
I10
J11
J71
N31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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