Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

mortality, birth weight, child height and adult stature were recorded from approximately 1940 to the late 1960s. While this …

health indicators. The results indicate a strong effect of macro-economic conditions during childhood on mortality at all …

height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other … significant height-wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

Previous studies have shown that both height and weight are associated with wages. However, by focusing on interpreting … the partial effects of either height or weight on wages while holding all else constant, some gaps in our understanding of … establish that a flexible analysis of height and weight provides a useful and meaningful proxy for beauty. A similar flexible …