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Problems of Sample-Selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature: A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy W.; Mroz, Thomas A. - Economics Department, Yale University - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear as crucial components in development economics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706051
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Problems of Sample-selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature: A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy W.; Mroz, Thomas A. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear as crucial components in development economics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908076
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Sample-selection biases and the " industrialization puzzle"
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas A. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011297562
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Theory and diagnostics for selection biases in historical height samples
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas A. - In: Research in economic history : an annual compilation of … 35 (2019), pp. 59-89
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229727
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Diagnosing sample-selection bias in historical heights : a reply to Komlos and A'Hearn
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas A. - In: The journal of economic history 79 (2019) 4, pp. 1154-1175
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171791
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Sample-selection biases and the industrialization puzzle
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas A. - In: The journal of economic history 77 (2017) 1, pp. 171-207
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742002
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Caveat lector : sample selection in historical heights and the interpretation of early industrialization economies
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas A. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339687
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Problems of sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature : a theoretical and econometric analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas A. - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear as crucial components in development economics and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744186
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Sample-Selection Biases and the “Industrialization Puzzle”
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2015
Understanding long-term changes in human well-being is central to understanding the consequences of economic development. An extensive anthropometric literature purports to show that heights in the United States declined between the 1830s and the 1890s, which is when the US economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021467
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Sample-selection biases and the “industrialization puzzle”
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2015
Understanding long-term changes in human well-being is central to understanding the consequences of economic development. An extensive anthropometric literature purports to show that heights in the United States declined between the 1830s and the 1890s, which is when the US economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457418