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Nineteenth Century Stature and Family Size: Binding Constraint or Productive Labor Force?
Carson, Scott A. - CESifo - 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/10008572560
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Nineteenth century stature and family size : binding constraint or productive labor force?
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
-spatial relationship between the environment and stature. -- family economics ; stature ; wealth ; inequality ; insolation ; vitamin D … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951557
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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 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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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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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 through early 20th century female and male statures within the household
Carson, Scott Alan - 2020
counterparts. Gender collectively had the greatest explanatory effect associated with stature, followed by age and nativity …. Socioeconomic status and birth period had the smallest collective effects with stature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299522
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Biological differences between late 19th and early 20th century urban and rural residence
Carson, Scott Alan - 2020
Communities urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural areas. Body mass, height, and weight are biological welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Across the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263846
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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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Families as roommates: Changes in US household size from 1850 to 2000
Salcedo, Alejandrina; Schoellman, Todd; Tertilt, Michèle - 2010
The size of the average American household has fallen dramatically - from six in 1850 to three in 2000. To explain this decline we model households as collections of roommates who share the costs of household public goods. If private goods are more income elastic than public goods, as we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322627