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Nineteenth Century Black and White US Statures: The Primary Sources of Vitamin D and their Relationship with Height

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

solar radiation, skin pigmentation, and nativity. Greater insolation (vitamin D production) is documented here to be … related to insolation. …

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Slave Prices, Geography and Insolation in 19th Century African-American Stature

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2007

whites, indicating a uniquely 19th century phenomenon may have inhibited black stature growth. It is geography and insolation … that present the most striking attribute for 19th century black stature, and greater insolation and higher slave prices are …

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Geography, Insolation, and Institutional Change in 19th Century African-American andWhite Stature in Southern States

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

stature growth. It is geography and direct sunlight (insolation) that present a striking attribute of 19th century black and … white statures, and greater insolation is documented here to be associated with taller black and white statures. …

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Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century African-American Stature

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2008

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 …

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Nineteenth Century Stature and Family Size: Binding Constraint or Productive Labor Force?

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2010

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be positively related with family size. The...

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Awareness Reduces Racial Bias

Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2014

Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and...

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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences Between Second-Generation Immigrants: Comparing Germany and German-speaking Switzerland

Kunz, Johannes S. - CESifo - 2014

In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants’ destination decision on their offspring’s educational achievement seems to be much more...

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Nineteenth Century Biological Conditions on the High Central Plains

Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 2012

Little work has been done on the biological conditions for the US Central Plains. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological conditions improved as Nebraska’s output market and...

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Anthropometry of Love - Height and Gender Asymmetries in Interethnic Marriages

Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - CESifo - 2009

Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...

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