Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological … health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … cohorts born 1951-1992. We find no evidence that the absolute differences in adult height across countries are associated with …

Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good …-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether individuals' height is associated with higher or lower levels of life …-satisfaction. In simple models there is a positive but concave relationship between height and life satisfaction. However it is shown …

gain apparent among whites but not among blacks. The relationship between height and income and between height and … health-care system, as well as the relatively weak welfare safety net might be the reason why human growth in the United …

height and use province level information for investigating the determinants of biological wellbeing. The results indicate a … decline of more than 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …

: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than their older or younger peers. The difference in height suggests …