de Oliveira, Victor Hugo; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, … - 2014
We study the relationship between environmental conditions at birth and adult stature using cohort-state level data in Brazil. We find that GDP per capita in the year of birth, not infant mortality rate, is a robust correlate of population stature in Brazil during the period 1950-1980. Our...