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Short Criminals: Stature and Crime in Early America / Howard Bodenhorn, Carolyn Moehling, Gregory N. Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bodenhorn, Howard.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15945.
- NBER working paper series no. w15945
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Short Criminals
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- This paper considers the extent to which crime in early America was conditioned on height. With data on inmates incarcerated in Pennsylvania state penitentiaries between 1826 and 1876, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the individual crime hazard. Our results reveal that, consistent with a theory in which height can be a source of labor market disadvantage, criminals in early America were shorter than the average American, and individual crime hazards decreased in height.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2010.
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