Gender bias in nineteenth-century England: evidence from factory children
Gender bias against girls in nineteenth-century England has received much interest but establishing its existence has proved difficult. We utilise data on heights of 16,402 children working in northern textile factories in 1837 to examine whether gender bias was evident. Current interpretations argu...
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Elsevier
2016
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