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Education, child nutrition, adult health/nutrition, and labor mobility are critical factors in achieving recent … forms of human capital are similar within each country for men and women, but education and migration returns are higher in …
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estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …'s schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that intercountry regressions do not yet help us determine the consequences of this …
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estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …'s schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that intercountry regressions do not yet help us determine the consequences of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612898
estimates based on household surveys of the productive payoff in Sub-Saharan Africa to nutrition and health, as proxied by adult … local quality of schooling, which appear to benefit disproportionately the above-average income households in Africa, as in …'s schooling, and urbanization. It is concluded that intercountry regressions do not yet help us determine the consequences of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357704
Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...
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We examine spatial convergence in biological well-being in the Habsburg Monarchy circa 1890-1910 on the basis of evidence on the physical stature of 21-year-old recruits disaggregated into 15 districts. We find that the shorter was the population in 1890 the faster its height grew thereafter....
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Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649804