the causes and effects of long-term changes in the health of the European populations. The paper surveys methods which had … growth in human physical height as an indicator of changes in the nutritional status of national populations, of the peoples …

willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education … health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses … ameliorated the deterioration of health in young children caused by a severe drought. Correcting for self-selection into the … for children, providing large and significant health gains for children whose families suffered from drought. …

Were cash benefits and welfare services available to the unemployed sufficient to protect them from ill-health? Recent …, confidential reports of the Ministry of Health and Board of Education, to point out that expert witnesses were increasingly …

likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We argue that differences in height distributions, combined with a … empirical support for this hypothesis using data from the Health Survey for England and the Millenium Cohort Study, which …

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 …

. This pattern persists when we compare height between siblings, and also holds for health inputs such as vaccinations. Three … than African firstborns; the Indian height disadvantage emerges with the second child and then increases with birth order … order gradient among Indian children and, consequently, the overall height deficit. First, the Indian firstborn height …

responds to earnings shocks. If productivity depends on nutrition, this explains some but not all of the response, as earnings …