Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological … health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … cohorts born 1951-1992. We find no evidence that the absolute differences in adult height across countries are associated with …

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million …

Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good …-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether individuals' height is associated with higher or lower levels of life …-satisfaction. In simple models there is a positive but concave relationship between height and life satisfaction. However it is shown …

demographics, human capital and health status. While parsimonious models suggest that height is protective against depression, the …' height is associated with higher or lower levels of well-being. Two outcomes are used: a measure of depression symptoms … between height and symptoms of depression. These results are sensitive to the inclusion of several sets of controls reflecting …

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 …

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health related care and … dominated by the genetic variation in height, and appear to understate substantially the human capital returns to health and …

the world, to being among the most overweight. The American height advantage over Western and Northern Europeans was … considering that this adverse development is related to the greater social inequality, an inferior health-care system, and fewer …- and Northern European welfare states, with cradle to grave health and unemployment insurance currently provide a more …

geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate, median income, and population density. We find that after adjusting … for variables known to influence height such as income and education, population density is negatively correlated with … height among white men, but only marginally among white women. Similar analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) also shows a …