Fluctuations in a dreadful childhood
synthetic longitudinal height data, relative prices and weather in the short-term health of American slaves
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- National Bureau of Economic Research. - Contributor
Publication
2004 - National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
9,250 words, Guess
Page Count
37 pages
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- OCLC Control Number57408622
- Open LibraryOL17625517M
Description
"For over a quarter century anthropometric historians have struggled to identify and measure the numerous factors that affect adult stature, which depends upon diet, disease and physical activity from conception to maturity. I simplify this complex problem by assessing nutritional status in a particular year using synthetic longitudinal data created from measurements of children born in the same year but measured at adjacent ages, which are abundantly available from 28,000 slave manifests housed at the National Archives. I link this evidence with annual measures of economic conditions and new measures of the disease environment to test hypotheses of slave owner behavior. Height-by-age profiles furnish clear evidence that owners substantially managed slave health. The short-term evidence shows that weather affected growth via exposure to pathogens and that owners modified net nutrition in response to sustained price signals"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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- NBER working paper series -- no. 10993.
- Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research) -- working paper no. 10993.
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