two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …

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 …

The paper examines the role of physical capacity in the determination of the height premium by using the “Health 2000 … muscle mass from medical examinations. Our results show that the height premium does not vary according to the physical …

India. The survey was carried out in 2006/7 and has a sample of 3000 children spread across 2 cohorts. Young Lives is an …

different states of India, officially collected by National Sample Survey Office. It has been observed that the absolute and … and urban India is pro poor in an absolute sense, since from the early 1990s. Although, relative pro poor growth has been … achieved for some spells in rural India, but, in Urban India, it is in general biased to the non-poor in most of the spells. …