Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological … health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … cohorts born 1951-1992. We find no evidence that the absolute differences in adult height across countries are associated with …

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 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 …

: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than their older or younger peers. The difference in height suggests …

We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18th century. English and Irish male … and convict servants in colonial North America, whose height is estimated as between 66.4 and 67.0 inches (168,7 and 170 … height distribution in this period. The English were about as tall as Bohemians and French, but shorter than the Irish and …

North American counterparts. The height gap between the rich and poor was the greatest in England, reaching 22 cm at age 16 … discovered, while the English rich were the tallest in their time: only 2.5 cm shorter than today's US standards. Height of the … the height of the wealthy tended rather to increase until the 1840s and then levelled off. …

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 …