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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2020
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CESifo Working Paper No. 8447
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Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Zusammenfassung: 
When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of biological measures are now standard in economics. This study uses late 19th and early 20th century BMI, statures, and weight to assess how net nutrition accumulated to women and men during US economic development. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male BMIs, statures, and weight remained constant over time. Unskilled laborers’ BMIs were higher, their statures were taller, and their weights heavier than workers in other occupations. Women and men from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic had higher BMIs and shorter statures, while their counterparts from the South were taller and had lower BMIs, indicating that it was superior Southern cumulative net nutrition associated with lower BMIs.
Schlagwörter: 
BMI variation
stature
economic transition
Oaxaca Decompositions
JEL: 
C10
C40
D10
I10
N30
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