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Net Nutrition And The Transition From 19th Century Bound To Free-Labor: Assessing Dietary Change With Differences-In-Decompositions

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  • Carson, Scott Alan

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Average stature reflects cumulative net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces a difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African-American cumulative net nutrition was comparable to working class whites, it was made worse-off with the transition to free-labor. Average stature reflects net nutrition over the life-course, and adult blacks born under bound-labor had greater age related statures loss than blacks under free-labor. Agricultural worker's net nutrition was better than workers in other occupations and was better-off under free-labor and industrialization. Within-group stature variation was greater than across-group variation, and white within-group stature variation associated with socioeconomic status was greater than African-Americans.

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  • Carson, Scott Alan, 2018. "Net Nutrition And The Transition From 19th Century Bound To Free-Labor: Assessing Dietary Change With Differences-In-Decompositions," Journal of Demographic Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 84(4), pages 447-475, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:demeco:v:84:y:2018:i:4:p:447-475_3
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    1. Scott A. Carson, 2021. "The Changing Antebellum Period through Early 20th Century Net Nutrition between Male and Females: A Difference-In-Decompositions within and across Group Comparison," CESifo Working Paper Series 9402, CESifo.
    2. Scott Alan Carson, 2023. "Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Social Feminism and Women’s Suffrage: A Female–Male Net Nutrition Comparison using Differences- in-decompositions," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, , vol. 35(2), pages 191-215, July.

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