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Nineteenth century stature and family size: Binding constraint or productive labor force?
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
considerable debate, and there was an inverse relationship between material inequality and stature. The paper also supports a bio … 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 relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272041
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Nineteenth century stature and family size: binding constraint or productive labor force?
Carson, Scott - In: Review of Economics of the Household 10 (2012) 1, pp. 39-52
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010867617
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Female and Male Body Mass, Height, and Weight during US Economic Development: 1860s-1930s
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of biological measures are now standard in economics. This study uses late 19th and early 20th century BMI, statures, and weight to assess how net nutrition accumulated to women and men during US economic development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269517
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Female and male body mass, height, and weight during US economic development: 1860s-1930s
Carson, Scott Alan - 2020
When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of biological measures are now standard in economics. This study uses late 19th and early 20th century BMI, statures, and weight to assess how net nutrition accumulated to women and men during US economic development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252414
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Nineteenth Century Stature and Family Size : Binding Constraint or Productive Labor Force?
Carson, Scott A. - 2021
considerable debate, and there was an inverse relationship between material inequality and stature. The paper also supports a bio … 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 relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316220
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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
stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts … solar radiation, skin pigmentation, and nativity. Greater insolation (vitamin D production) is documented here to be … associated with taller black and white statures, and a considerable share of the stature differential by socioeconomic status was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271952
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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
stronger skeletal systems and stature growth. Using a new source of 19th century US state prison records, this study contrasts … solar radiation, skin pigmentation, and nativity. Greater insolation (vitamin D production) is documented here to be … associated with taller black and white statures, and a considerable share of the stature differential by socioeconomic status was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766094
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Changing Current Net Nutrition with Weight as a Measure of Net Nutritional Change with the Transition from Bound to Free Labor: A Difference-in-Decompositions Approach
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
A population’s weight conditioned on height reflects its current net nutrition and demonstrates health variation during economic development. This study builds on the use of weight as a measure for current net nutrition and uses a difference-in-decompositions technique to illustrate how black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018193
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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
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 antebellum paradox. However, the question may not be well stated nor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534303
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A Female-Male Net Nutrition Comparison Using Differences-in-Decompositions: Late 19th and Early 20th Century Social Feminism and Women's Suffrage
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the body mass index (BMI) is a biological measure that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs varied with the advent of early 20th century social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179836