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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages

Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 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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Gender and ethnicity : married immigrants in Britain

Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2005

In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...

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Slave prices, geography and insolation in 19th century African-American stature

Carson, Scott Alan - 2007

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional arrangements were related to black stature....

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Nineteenth century black and white US statures: the primary sources of vitamin D and their relationship with height

Carson, Scott Alan - 2008

Vitamin D is vital in all vertebrates because it allows them to absorb more calcium from their diets, contributing to stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts the statures of comparable African-Americans and...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century US white statures

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Using a source of 19th century US state prison records, this study addresses European-American stature variation. The most commonly cited sources for stature variation are diets, disease, and work effort. However, vitamin D is also vital in human statures and health. This paper demonstrates that...

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Racial differences in body-mass indices for men imprisoned in 19th century US prisons: A multinomial approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

Little research has been done on the body mass index values of 19th century US African-Americans and whites. This paper uses 19th century US prison records to demonstrate that although modern BMIs have increased in the 20th century, 19th century black and white BMIs were distributed...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American Body Mass Index values

Carson, Scott Alan - 2011

Little research exists on the body mass index values of late 19th and early 20th century African-Americans. Using a new BMI data set and robust statistics, this paper demonstrates that late 19th and early 20th century black BMI variation by age increased in their mid-30s but declined at older...

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Nineteenth century US African-American and white female statures: Insight from US prison records

Carson, Scott A. - 2010

Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts? the number of individuals of the same ethnicity?and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic group....

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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of … ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … principal component analysis, this paper proposes two richer measures of ethnic identity than the ones used in the literature …

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