A quantile approach to the demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on 19th-century African-American body mass index values

Scott Alan Carson ()
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Scott Alan Carson: University of Texas, Permian Basin, Austin, TX, USA

Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, 2012, vol. 6, issue 2, 193-209

Abstract: Little research exists on the body mass index values of late 19th- and early 20th-century African-Americans. Using a new BMI data set and robust statistics, this paper demonstrates that darker complexioned black BMIs were greater than for mulattos, and a mulatto BMI advantage did not exist. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black BMIs decreased across the BMI distribution, indicating that the 20th-century increase in black BMIs did not have its origin in the 19th century. During industrialization, black BMIs were lower in Kentucky, Missouri, and urban Philadelphia. Late 19th- and early 20th-century black BMIs were related to occupations, and farmers had heavier BMIs than workers in other occupations.

Keywords: Nineteenth-century US economic development; Body mass index; 19th-century race relations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 J11 J71 N31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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