capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks …Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks …

between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male … new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country’s democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link …

height and use province level information for investigating the determinants of biological wellbeing. The results indicate a … decline of more than 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …

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 …

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 …

Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we …. In addition, we present some evidence that height and social skills are positively associated already at age 2-3. Our … results imply that controlling for social skills would significantly reduce estimates of the height-school premium. With …

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

empirically understudied. This paper analyzes the determinants of the urban height profile by combining a micro-geographic data … elasticity of height, the height elasticity of construction cost, and the elasticity of substitution between land and capital for … tall buildings. In line with improvements in construction technology, the land price elasticity of height increased …

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 between …