Journal article
Clarifications of a puzzle: the decline in nutritional status at the onset of modern economic growth in the United States
- Abstract:
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Bodenhom, Guinnane, and Mroz (2017) are critical of anthropometric research using based on non-random samples. Declining height trends in military and prison data, they argue, are artifacts of negative selection during favorable labor market conditions. We study height trends in the United States in the antebellum decades, which coincided with the onset of modem economic growth. We find that neither the historical evidence nor their own statistical analysis support their views. The decline in...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Economic History Journal website
- Volume:
- 79
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1129-1153
- Publication date:
- 2019-11-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-09-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-6372
- ISSN:
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0022-0507
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:1053936
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- Local pid:
- pubs:1053936
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1053936
- Deposit date:
- 2019-09-17
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- The Economic History Association
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © The Economic History Association. All rights reserved
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050719000573
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