Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5057475 | Economics & Human Biology | 2007 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
No research has been done on the body mass index values of the 19th-century Mexican population. This paper introduces a new data source of 19th-century Mexican male inmates in American prisons and finds that the majority of Mexican body mass was in the normal range (18.5-24.9). Few Mexicans were underweight or obese by modern standards. Body mass varied little (0-0.9Â units) by occupations possibly because criminals probably came from the lower end of the socioeconomic distribution; however, it did vary with crimes for which inmates were incarcerated.
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Authors
Scott Alan Carson,