Gender bias in nineteenth-century England: Evidence from factory children
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- 作者：Sara Horrella ; sh111@cam.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Deborah Oxleyb ; 1 ; deborah.oxley@all-souls.ox.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：I31 ; J16 ; N33
- 刊名：Economics Human Biology
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：September 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：22
- 期：Complete
- 页码：47-64
- 全文大小：1370 K
文摘
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Heights of C19th factory children with earnings parity exhibit female disadvantage.
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We discount wholesale systematic age deception as causal.
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The ‘double burden’ is implicated as a source of discrimination against girls.
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We model how delayed growth traces a gender-specific U-form against WHO standards.