Clarifications of a puzzle: the decline in nutritional status at the onset of modern economic growth in the United States

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...

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Main Authors: A'Hearn, B, Komlos, J
פורמט: Journal article
שפה:English
יצא לאור: Cambridge University Press 2019