How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well … market accumulations may not inform this question if the effect of wealth on health is asymmetric. We use exogenous variation … in the interview dates of the 2008 Health and Retirement Study to assess the impact of large wealth losses on mental …

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a …

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …

The trend of the height of Indian scouts in the U.S. Army born between ca. 1825 and 1875 is analyzed. Their average … height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the … rural populations in the New World. The trend in their height describes a slightly inverted ”U” shape with an increase …

married to a White person than Chinese women. We argue that differences in height distributions, combined with a simple …

explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … that there is a consistent height-wage premium across Europe and that it is largely due to occupational sorting. We show … that height has a significant effect for the occupational sorting of employed workers but not for the self-employed. We …

The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school height measurements was compiled and complemented with …

Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we … investigate the mechanisms behind this relationship using data on German pre-teen students. We show that (i) taller children are …. In addition, we present some evidence that height and social skills are positively associated already at age 2-3. Our …

capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks … differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks and the Czechs did not change. Slovaks benefited …