Bodenhorn, Howard
[VerfasserIn]
;
Moehling, Carolyn
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Price, Gregory N.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]National Bureau of Economic Research
Erschienen:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010
Erschienen in:NBER working paper series ; no. w15945
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Englisch
DOI:
10.3386/w15945
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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