Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …

learning tests, this paper documents a height–achievement slope among Indian children. The height–achievement slope in India is …Taller children perform better on average on tests of cognitive achievement, in part because of differences in early …-life health and net nutrition. Recent research documenting this height–achievement slope has primarily focused on rich countries …

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …

Using an Italian survey, we investigate the effect of height on individual happiness. We find that a large part of the … effect of height on well-being is driven by a positive correlation between height and economic and health conditions. However …, for young men the effect of height on happiness persists even after controlling for these variables, implying that height …

about the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and height. Using individual data from the 1999-2004 U … (ICE), and population density, as potential predictors of height. Employing a series of two-level random intercept models …, we find a one standard deviation increase in NSES to be associated with a 0.6–1.4cm height advantage for white and …

statistical approach we develop enables comparisons of the full distributions of height data from potential army conscripts across …