Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …

indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby …

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 …

We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and … the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when … hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …

Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive … wellbeing depreciates disproportionally as more and more events occur in a given period. For positive events, effects are weakly …

a shared kitchen, university degree type, riskaversion, extraversion and height are predictors of transmission. The … about both structural and individual factors that predict transmission. The evidence about height is discussed in the …

This paper explores the changing trend of adult height in China for cohorts born in 1950-90. We use information on the … the 40-year period, the growth rate of adult height increased, with the most substantial increase occurring in the 1980s …. One important contributing factor to the growth of adult height is the continued increase in government per capita …

Despite a wealth of research on its correlates, relatively little is known about how to effectively raise wellbeing in … aimed at raising the wellbeing and pro-sociality of the general adult population. The manualised course ("Exploring What … 26 countries around the world. We found that it has strong, positive causal effects on participants' subjective wellbeing …

representative data from the Gallup-Healthways survey to assess the spillover effects of mass shootings on community wellbeing and … community wellbeing and emotional health. According to our results, a mass shooting is associated with a 27 percentage point … decline in the likelihood of having excellent community wellbeing and a 13 percentage point decline in the likelihood of …