geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate, median income, and population density. We find that after adjusting … conditions as measured by median income, unemployment rate or poverty rate do not have a strong correlation with height or weight … for variables known to influence height such as income and education, population density is negatively correlated with …

considering that this adverse development is related to the greater social inequality, an inferior health-care system, and fewer … social safety nets in the United States than in Western and Northern Europe, in spite of higher per capita income. The West …- and Northern European welfare states, with cradle to grave health and unemployment insurance currently provide a more …

trust and social capital, individualism, family ties, morality, attitudes toward work and perception of poverty, and …

trust and social capital, individualism, family ties, morality, attitudes toward work and perception of poverty, and …