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Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States

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Lee A. Craig
Thomas Weiss
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We model the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, and height, and we test the hypothesis that adult height is positively correlated with the local production of nutrition in infancy. We test the hypothesis on two samples of Union Army recruits - one consisting of white recruits and the other black recruits. The white sample shows that a local protein surplus one standard deviation above the mean yielded an additional 0.10 inches in adult height, and a similar deviation in surplus calorie production yielded an additional 0.20 inches. For blacks, however, the effect was probably negligible.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Historical Working Papers with number 0099.

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Date of creation: Apr 1997
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Publication status: published as The Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective, Kolmos, John and Joerg Baten, eds., Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998,pp. 190-207.
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  1. John Komlos, . "Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Standard of Living and Economic Development," Articles by John Komlos 36, Department of Economics, University of Munich.
  2. John Komlos, . "The Secular Trend in the Biological Standard of Living in the United Kingdom, 1730-1860," Articles by John Komlos 19, Department of Economics, University of Munich.
  3. John Komlos, . "The Height and Weight of West Point Cadets: Dietary Change in Antebellum America," Articles by John Komlos 32, Department of Economics, University of Munich.
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