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 … human capital wage effects of height compared with the OLS estimates. The OLS estimates of height effects on wages are …

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 …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …