Short Criminals : Stature and Crime in Early America

Howard Bodenhorn, Carolyn Moehling, Gregory N. Price

This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates incarcerated in Pennsylvania state penitentiaries between 1826 and 1876, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our results reveal that, consistent with a theory in which height can be a source of labor market disadvantage, criminals in early America were shorter than the average American, and individual crime hazards decreased in height

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Year of publication:	April 2010
Authors:	Bodenhorn, Howard
Other Persons:	Moehling, Carolyn (contributor) ; Price, Gregory N. (contributor)
Institutions:	National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research
Subject:	Kriminalität \| Crime \| Straftäter \| Offenders \| Persönlichkeitspsychologie \| Personality psychology

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Series:	NBER working paper series ; no. w15945
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers.
Other identifiers:	10.3386/w15945 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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