The Net Effect of Railroads on Stature in the Postbellum Period

Ebru Guven Solakoglu

A chapter in Research in Economic History, 2006, pp 105-117 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This study utilizes a different approach to examine the effect of transportation on the average height of people in the postbellum period, simply by modeling the change in the marketable surplus of protein. The results show that railroad development had a positive effect on average height from 1867 to 1887, and after this period, its effect was negligible. This study suggests that the factors with negative effects – such as urbanization, industrialization, and infectious diseases – dominated the positive effects of railroad development leading actual average height to decrease from 1867 to 1887.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/S0363-3268(06)24003-5

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