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 …

dimension of expenditures and assets, improvement in children's height-for-age z-scores is less certain for the 1995-2000 period …