health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … intergenerational mobility in height and years of schooling. The findings show that, on average, male offspring are 2.8 centimeters …. The study finds that a 1 percent increase in height is associated with a 10.7 and 8.8 percent increases in hourly wages …

Average adult height is a physical measure of the biological standard of living of a population. While the biological … health of a population when other data are not available. We investigate how informative this approach is in terms of … cohorts born 1951-1992. We find no evidence that the absolute differences in adult height across countries are associated with …

anthropometric data: the height and weight of university students. Combined with more traditional anthropometric sources these data …. Our findings suggest that inequality was most pronounced in Ireland, followed by England. Height inequality in Scotland …