Replication materials for a study on sample-selection bias and height trends in the nineteenth-century United States, published in the Journal of Economic History. It was created by Ariell Zimran and last updated in February 2026.
Use Cases
- Replicate the econometric analysis of height trends using the study's original data and code
- Examine the methodological approach to correcting for sample-selection bias as described in the published paper
- Use the replication package to verify the statistical findings on nineteenth-century U.S. population characteristics
Strengths
- Directly supports replication of a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Economic History
- Maintained by an authoritative academic data repository (ICPSR Harvested Dataverse)
- Last updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance
Limitations
- The specific variables, row count, and file formats are not described in the available metadata
- The dataset's scope is confined to the specific analysis of a single published study
- Without column details, the granularity of the underlying data is unknown
Provenance
- Source
- ICPSR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Created as a replication package for a published academic study.
- Time Range
- Nineteenth-century United States
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United States