Adult height is associated with a variety of familial and socio-economic factors and large, well-defined populations … by their attained education and by their father's occupation. The 5.1cm height gradient from lowest to highest education … explained by common determinants of height including paternal occupation as a measure of familial background, region of birth …

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 …

effect of body size, height and body mass index as indicators of nutrition, upon wages. Data comes from a longitudinal study …

using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the …Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of … grew up to be 1 to 2 cm shorter. Our results suggest that average height is potentially a biased measure of economic …

using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the …Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of … grew up to be 1 to 2 cm shorter. Our results suggest that average height is potentially a biased measure of economic …

Height is widely used as an objective measure of health status. It is commonly used in the large body of research … rely on the assumption that height is fixed in late adolescence. Using repeated observations on objectively measured data … individuals, and demonstrate how the use of unadjusted height will dramatically overstate health improvements for younger birth …