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Title: Health During Industrialization: Evidence from the 19th Century Pennsylvania State Prison System

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Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economic history. Moreover, a number of core findings in this literature are widely agreed upon. There are still some populations, places, and times, however, for which anthropometric evidence remains thin. One example is African-Americans in the US Northeast and Middle Atlantic states during the 1800s. Here, a new data is used from the Pennsylvania state prison to track black and white male heights incarcerated between 1829 to 1909. Throughout the century, and controlling for a number of characteristics, Pennsylvania black men in were shorter than white men. The well-known mid-century height decline is confirmed among white men, however, extended to blacks as well.

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Authors: Carson, Scott Alan

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Publication Number: 1975

Institution: University of Texas, Permian Basin

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Race and Ethnicity

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