Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … the detailed, geocoded data that follows national representative cohorts of children born to the National Longitudinal … site opened or closed within one mile of their home. I find that children who were exposed prenatally to industrial …

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 … influence the latter reproducible human capital investments in height. I report OLS and IV estimates of the partial effect of …

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 … influence the latter reproducible human capital investments in height. I report OLS and IV estimates of the partial effect of …

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 …

about the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and height. Using individual data from the 1999-2004 U … (ICE), and population density, as potential predictors of height. Employing a series of two-level random intercept models …, we find a one standard deviation increase in NSES to be associated with a 0.6–1.4cm height advantage for white and …