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Obesity in black and white : accounting for 19th century US BMI differences by socioeconomic status and biology
Carson, Scott A. - 2012
Little research exists on late 19th and early 20th century US body mass index value differences by race, and darker complexions were associated with greater BMI values. Mulattos had greater BMI returns associated with socioeconomic characteristics, indicating that while blacks had greater BMIs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581965
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Body Weight and United States Economic Development, 1840-1940
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
When traditional measures for material and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely accepted measures that represent cumulative and current net nutrition in development studies. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI does not fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889228
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Nineteenth Century Weight in the United States : Revaluating Net Nutrition During Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2015
Heights and body mass index values (BMIs) are now well accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development and institutional change. This study uses 19th century weights instead of BMIs to measure factors associated with current net nutrition. Across the weight distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014360
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Little divergence in America : market access and demographic transition in the United States
Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2022
This paper assesses the causal impact of greater market access on demographic transition during the latter half of the 19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the county level from 1850 - 1890. We are able to document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173243
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Nineteenth century US BMIs by race : socioeconomics and biology
Carson, Scott A. - 2012
Little research exists on late 19th and early 20th century US body mass index value differences by race, and darker complexions were associated with greater BMI values. Mulattos had greater BMI returns associated with socioeconomic characteristics, indicating that while blacks had greater BMIs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009655169
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Obesity in Black and White : Accounting for 19th Century US BMI Differences by Socioeconomic Status and Biology
Carson, Scott A. - 2021
Little research exists on late 19th and early 20th century US body mass index value differences by race, and darker complexions were associated with greater BMI values. Mulattos had greater BMI returns associated with socioeconomic characteristics, indicating that while blacks had greater BMIs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315871
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Body weight and United States economic development, 1840-1940
Carson, Scott Alan - 2019
When traditional measures for material and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely accepted measures that represent cumulative and current net nutrition in development studies. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI does not fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990032
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In support of the turner hypothesis for the 19th century American West : a biological response to recent criticisms
Carson, Scott Alan - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819383
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Little Divergence in America Market Access and Demographic Transition in the United States
Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed - 2022
This paper assesses the causal impact of greater market access on demographic transition during the latter half of the 19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the county level from 1850 1890. We are able to document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083746
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Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives : Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration - Online Appendix G
Tabellini, Marco - 2019
In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring economic prosperity …. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to US cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the … Immigration Acts of the 1920s, and instrument immigrants' location decision relying on pre-existing settlement patterns. I find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897663