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 …

gain apparent among whites but not among blacks. The relationship between height and income and between height and … health-care system, as well as the relatively weak welfare safety net might be the reason why human growth in the United …

mortality, birth weight, child height and adult stature were recorded from approximately 1940 to the late 1960s. While this …

HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …

health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … intergenerational mobility in height and years of schooling. The findings show that, on average, male offspring are 2.8 centimeters …. The study finds that a 1 percent increase in height is associated with a 10.7 and 8.8 percent increases in hourly wages …

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 …