Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/19160 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1696
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
By using a new source of 19th century Texas state prison records, the present study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable blacks and whites in the American South between the Civil War and Reconstruction. White stature exceeded black stature. Between 1850 and 1870, black sub-adult stature declined by over one centimeter. Postbellum sub-adult white stature declined by over one and a half centimeters and never recovered over the same period. The secular trend for adult blacks improved by two and one half centimeters between the 1850s but declined after the Civil War.
JEL: 
N31
I12
J70
J15
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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