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dc.contributor.author | Carson, Scott Alan | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-07-25 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-28T08:14:57Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-07-28T08:14:57Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26020 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economic history. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One example is African-Americans in the US Northeast and Middle Atlantic states during the 1800s. Here, a new data is used from the Pennsylvania state prison to track black and white male heights incarcerated between 1829 to 1909. Throughout the century, and controlling for a number of characteristics, Pennsylvania black men in were shorter than white men. The well-known mid-century height decline is confirmed among white men, however, extended to blacks as well. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunich | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aCESifo Working Paper |x1975 | en |
dc.subject.jel | N31 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J15 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J70 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I12 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I31 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.title | Health during industrialization: evidence from the 19th century Pennsylvania state prison system | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 538173033 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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