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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the …Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of … grew up to be 1 to 2 cm shorter. Our results suggest that average height is potentially a biased measure of economic …

using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the …Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of … grew up to be 1 to 2 cm shorter. Our results suggest that average height is potentially a biased measure of economic …

using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the …Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of … grew up to be 1 to 2cm shorter. Our results suggest that if a country experiences a shock such as famine, average height is …

diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is … selection effects of the Chinese famine, using the height of the children of the famine cohort. We find significant stunting of …. Our results suggest that mortality bias implies that raw height is not always a good measure of economic conditions during …

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 …

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 …