A comment on “Height and the standard of living in Puerto Rico from the Spanish Enlightenment to annexation by the United States, 1770–1924”

IF 2.2 3区医学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Economics & Human Biology Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101376

Brian Marein , John Devereux

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Abstract

Using prisoner height data, Moreno-Lázaro (2023) claims that Puerto Rican living standards declined after US annexation and stagnated for decades. This conclusion is not supported by the prisoner data and is inconsistent with other welfare measures that show dramatic improvement, such as per capita GDP, life expectancy, and literacy.

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Moreno-Lázaro (2023) 利用囚犯身高数据，声称波多黎各人的生活水平在美国吞并后有所下降，并停滞了几十年。这一结论并没有得到囚犯数据的支持，也与其他显示出显著改善的福利措施不符，如人均 GDP、预期寿命和识字率。

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Economics & Human Biology 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

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4.50

自引率

12.00%

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审稿时长

61 days

期刊介绍： Economics and Human Biology is devoted to the exploration of the effect of socio-economic processes on human beings as biological organisms. Research covered in this (quarterly) interdisciplinary journal is not bound by temporal or geographic limitations.