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Geography and insolation in 19th century US African-American and white statures
Carson, Scott Alan - 2008
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 and statures, and greater insolation is documented here to …
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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
solar radiation, skin pigmentation, and nativity. Greater insolation (vitamin D production) is documented here to be … related to insolation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271952
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Geography, insolation, and institutional change in 19th century African-American and white stature in southern states
Carson, Scott Alan - 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 Alan - 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 Alan - 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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Does employing undocumented workers give firms a competitive advantage?
Brown, J. David; Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam - 2012
Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that, on average, across all firms, employing undocumented workers reduces a firm’s hazard of exit by 19 percent. The advantage to firms from employing undocumented workers increases as more firms in the industry do so,...
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The wage impact of undocumented workers
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam; Rios-Avila, … - 2012
Using administrative, individual-level, longitudinal data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that a documented worker employed by a firm that hires undocumented workers can expect to earn 0.15 percent less than if employed by a firm that does not hire undocumented workers. However, in...
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Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions. When do they Arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
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Is smoking behavior culturally determined? Evidence from British immigrants
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - 2013
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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