We examine the consequences of childhood health for economic and health outcomes in adulthood, using height as a marker … height and a range of outcomes, including schooling, employment, earnings, health and cognitive ability, using data collected … from early to late adulthood on cohort members in five longitudinal data sets. We find height is uniformly associated with …

Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …

Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between … childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of the older individuals is contaminated by height … shrinkage from aging. Height shrinkage, in turn may be correlated with health conditions and socio-economic status from …

studies have analysed the extent of such catch-up growth by regressing adult height on early childhood height. In this paper … recovery in the Philippines cohort. In Kagera, almost 75 per cent of the children experience catch-up growth. The mean height …

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …