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A Post Bellum Paradox: Net Nutrition Variation by Socioeconomic Status, Gender and Race in the Late 19th Century

Carson, Scott Alan - 2024

When traditional measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, body mass, height, and weight are complements to standard income and wealth measures. A persistent question in welfare studies is the 19th century's 2nd and 3rd quarter's stature diminution, a pattern known as the...

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Biological Differences between Late 19th and Early 20th Century Urban and Rural Residence

Carson, Scott A. - 2020

Communities urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural areas. Body mass, height, and weight are biological welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Across the United...

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Late 19th and Early 20th Century Urban Net Nutrition by Gender and Race

Carson, Scott Alan - 2023

Individuals urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural living conditions. Body mass, height, and weight are welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Nineteenth and early...

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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

explain the otherwise puzzling findings from a reform which granted automatic birthright citizenship to eligible immigrant … the months before versus after the reform, we find that birthright citizenship lowers measures of life satisfaction and … salient. Birthright citizenship results in disillusionment where immigrant Muslim girls believe their chances of achieving …

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