Short criminals
Subtitle: stature and crime in early America
By: Howard Bodenhorn, Carolyn Moehling, Gregory N. Price
Contributors: Moehling, Carolyn M. (Carolyn Marie), 1968-; Price, Gregory N.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15945; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15945.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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