The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school height measurements was compiled and complemented with …

maternal health by (relative) height. We find that improvements in maternal education, income and public health provision that …

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 … influence the latter reproducible human capital investments in height. I report OLS and IV estimates of the partial effect of …

a shared kitchen, university degree type, riskaversion, extraversion and height are predictors of transmission. The … about both structural and individual factors that predict transmission. The evidence about height is discussed in the …

This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and … life expectancy of children born in the years and regions affected by the Phylloxera. The shock decreased long run height …

a relationship between health (nutrition) measures (i.e. height and BMI) and wages (which proxies productivity … indicate that productivity is positively and significantly affected by education, height and BMI. The return to BMI is … suffer a wage penalty due to BMI. Height has been a significant factor affecting men’s productivity but not women. The …