This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …

of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to … analyze the relationship between the standardized heights of children and the number of children in the family. Our results … suggest that heights are influenced positively by family income per capita and negatively by the number of children or the …

from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location … with relatively high infant mortality rates live significantly fewer years, that 1st born children in the family live …

of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to … analyze the relationship between the standardized heights of children and the number of children in the family. Our results … suggest that heights are influenced positively by family income per capita and negatively by the number of children or the …

from a sample of around 5,000 children collected in the UK in 1937-39, who have been traced through official death records … household income only being a significant predictor of death from cancer. Moreover, we find that children born in a location … with relatively high infant mortality rates live significantly fewer years, that 1st born children in the family live …