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dc.contributor.authorCarson, Scott Alanen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-15-
dc.date.accessioned2009-07-28T08:47:52Z-
dc.date.available2009-07-28T08:47:52Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/26524-
dc.description.abstractThe use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter than whites. Greater insolation (vitamin D production), is documented here to be associated with taller black statures. Consistent with the insolation-hypothesis, mulattos were taller than darker pigmented blacks, and most of the mulatto-black stature differential was attributable to age and insolation. Black farmers were taller than workers in other occupations, and black statures increased during the antebellum period and decreased with slavery's elimination, which is observed across the stature distribution.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aCenter for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |cMunichen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aCESifo Working Paper |x2479en
dc.subject.jelJ16en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keyword19th century African-American statureen
dc.subject.keywordinsolationen
dc.subject.keywordquantile regressionen
dc.subject.stwLebensstandarden
dc.subject.stwFarbige Bevölkerungen
dc.subject.stwWeißeen
dc.subject.stwKlimaen
dc.subject.stwSoziale Ungleichheiten
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleDemographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American stature-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn589390597en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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