Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/226318 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8616
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
When other measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, the use of height is now common to evaluate economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been slow to emerge. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, female and male statures remained constant. Agricultural workers had taller statures than workers in other occupations, and the female agricultural height premium was over twice that of males. For both females and males, individuals with fairer complexions were taller than their darker complexioned counterparts. Gender collectively had the greatest explanatory effect associated with stature, followed by age and nativity. Socioeconomic status and birth period had the smallest collective effects with stature.
Subjects: 
gender studies
stature by gender
economic transitions
JEL: 
C10
C40
D10
I10
N30
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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