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Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska … state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned … mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased, late 19th and early 20th century BMIs in Nebraska were in normal …
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Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska … state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned … mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased, late 19th and early 20th century BMIs in Nebraska were in normal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667415
Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska … state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned … mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased, late 19th and early 20th century BMIs in Nebraska were in normal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315766
In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner proposed that America's Western frontier was an economic "safety-valve", a place where settlers could migrate when conditions in eastern states and Europe crystalized against their upward economic mobility. However, recent studies suggest the Western frontier's...
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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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A population's average stature reflects its cumulative net nutrition and provides important insight when more traditional measures for economic well-being is scarce or unreliable. Heights on the US Central Plains did not experience the antebellum paradox experienced in Eastern urban areas, and...
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environments with stature growth, farm laborers were taller than common laborers. Urbanization and industrialization were …
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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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