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height at the individual level has implications for the effects of income inequality on the distribution of heights. These …This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of … height is set by the balance between food intake and charges to disease in early childhood, it is informative about economic …
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childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of …, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the …) mortality, interpreted as a measure of the disease and nutritional burden in childhood, and the mean height of those children as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738476
childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of …, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the …) mortality, interpreted as a measure of the disease and nutritional burden in childhood, and the mean height of those children as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150184
The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150055
The great promise of surveys in which people report their own level of life satisfaction is that such surveys might provide a straightforward and easily collected measure of individual or national well-being that aggregates over the various components of well-being, such as economic status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558597
In spite of India’s rapid economic growth, there has been a sustained decline in per capita calorie consumption during … nutritional status in India are among the worst in the world. While these indicators have shown improvement over time, the rate of … basic facts about growth, poverty and nutrition in India, it points to a number of puzzles, and it sketches a preliminary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279384
In spite of India’s rapid economic growth, there has been a sustained decline in per capita calorie consumption during … nutritional status in India are among the worst in the world. While these indicators have shown improvement over time, the rate of … basic facts about growth, poverty and nutrition in India, it points to a number of puzzles, and it sketches a preliminary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548103
Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease burden that an individual will face in middle age (David...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279383
Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease burden that an individual will face in middle age (David...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738493
This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604403