during 2000-2006, a period of increasing poverty and obesity and declining health insurance coverage …

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 …

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

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 … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …

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 …