We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker … height and a range of outcomes, including schooling, employment, earnings, health and cognitive ability, using data collected … from early to late adulthood on cohort members in five longitudinal data sets. We find height is uniformly associated with …

willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …

Adult height is associated with a variety of familial and socio-economic factors and large, well-defined populations … by their attained education and by their father's occupation. The 5.1cm height gradient from lowest to highest education … explained by common determinants of height including paternal occupation as a measure of familial background, region of birth …

This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and … life expectancy of children born in the years and regions affected by the Phylloxera. The shock decreased long run height …