TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bodenhorn,Howard
AU  - Moehling,Carolyn
AU  - Price,Gregory N.
TI  - Short Criminals: Stature and Crime in Early America
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15945
PY  - 2010
Y2  - April 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15945
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15945.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Howard Bodenhorn
John E. Walker Department of Economics
College of Business and Behavioral Science
201-B Sirrine Hall
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
Tel: 864/656-4335
E-Mail: bodenhorn@gmail.com

Carolyn Moehling
Department of Economics
Rutgers University
75 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248
Tel: 732/932-7188
Fax: NA
E-Mail: cmoehling@econ.rutgers.edu

Gregory Price
Department of Economics
Morehouse College
Atlanta, GA 30314
E-Mail: gprice@morehouse.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -