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 …

. We use data collected on all men who were called up for possible conscription into the French army with the unit of … expenditures on education, the availability of health care personnel, local wages, the distribution of assets, as well as a dummy … urbanized and congested Paris contributed to poor health status. …

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 …

This paper considers whether ethnicity conditions the return and access to health capital in China. Given that the wage-height … individual wages, and estimate height-augmented Mincerian earnings functions with data from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition … returns to height by ethnicity reflect ethnic differences in access to health capital during childhood and adolescence. We …

Child labour has been considered a health risk affecting physical growth. Together with income, diets, diseases and … environmental hygiene, child labour is one of the determinants of height. This paper examines whether child labour affected the … that child labour might have on physical health and nutritional status. After reporting on what happened during the …