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Height and weight for U.S. blacks and whites in the nineteenth century. Average heights used for imputed weights are 66.96 inches for blacks and 67.47 inches for whites. Average insolation used for imputed heights are 4.35 hours per day for blacks and 4.02 hours per day for whites. Source: See Table 3, Models 3–6

Height and weight for U.S. blacks and whites in the nineteenth century. Ave...

in A Weighty Issue: Diminished Net Nutrition Among the U.S. Working Class in the Nineteenth Century > Demography
Published: 12 May 2015
Fig. 3 Height and weight for U.S. blacks and whites in the nineteenth century. Average heights used for imputed weights are 66.96 inches for blacks and 67.47 inches for whites. Average insolation used for imputed heights are 4.35 hours per day for blacks and 4.02 hours per day for whites More
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Differences in Child Health Across Rural, Urban, and Slum Areas: Evidence From India

Claus C. Pörtner, Yu-hsuan Su
Demography (2018) 55 (1): 223–247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0634-7
Published: 30 November 2017
.... Simple height-for-age averages show that rural Indian children have the poorest health and urban children have the best, with slum children in between. With wealth or observed health environment held constant, the urban height-for-age advantage disappears, and slum children fare significantly worse than...
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Causes and consequences of early-life health

Anne Case, Christina Paxson
Demography (2010) 47 (Suppl 1): S65–S85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2010.0007
Published: 01 March 2010
... problems that complicate the study of this topic. We then present estimates of the associations between height and a range of outcomes—including schooling, employment, earnings, health, and cognitive ability—measured in five data sets from early to late adulthood. These results indicate that, on average...
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Growing and Learning When Consumption Is Seasonal: Long-Term Evidence From Tanzania

Paul Christian, Brian Dillon
Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1091–1118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0669-4
Published: 14 May 2018
.... The youngest group, children in the first 1,000 days of life, represent 12 % of the sample. Across the sample, the average height is 162.5 cm, and the average years of education is 7.6. Slight differences between age groups in average height are likely because of variation in the number of remaining growth...
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A Weighty Issue: Diminished Net Nutrition Among the U.S. Working Class in the Nineteenth Century

Scott Alan Carson
Demography (2015) 52 (3): 945–966.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0384-3
Published: 12 May 2015
...Fig. 3 Height and weight for U.S. blacks and whites in the nineteenth century. Average heights used for imputed weights are 66.96 inches for blacks and 67.47 inches for whites. Average insolation used for imputed heights are 4.35 hours per day for blacks and 4.02 hours per day for whites...
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Adult height and childhood disease

Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
Demography (2009) 46 (4): 647–669.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0079
Published: 01 November 2009
...-mortality countries of the world, supplementing recent findings on the effects of the Great Chinese Famine. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2009 2009 Birth Cohort Congenital Malformation Average Height Rich Country Adult Height References Bogin B. ( 2001...
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Eliciting Survival Expectations of the Elderly in Low-Income Countries: Evidence From India

Adeline Delavande, Jinkook Lee, Seetha Menon
Demography (2017) 54 (2): 673–699.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0560-8
Published: 09 March 2017
... an association between height, early-life nutritional status, morbidity, and mortality (Bhalotra and Rawlings 2011 ; Monden and Smits 2009 ). The average height in our analytical sample is 165.5 cm for men and 153.1 cm for women. The third panel in Table 7 presents the association between height...
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Marital protection and marital selection: Evidence from a historical-prospective sample of American men

John E. Murray
Demography (2000) 37 (4): 511–521.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2000.0010
Published: 01 November 2000
... re- sults from the residual of this nutritional intake minus the demands of work intensity, disease fighting, and mainte- nance during the growing years. Average final height thus reflects the group s net nutritional status as it results from environmental influences on individual group members dur...
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Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries

Anna Folke Larsen, Derek Headey, William A. Masters
Demography (2019) 56 (2): 707–728.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0753-9
Published: 28 January 2019
... in Fig. 1 because age is, on average, overstated for reported birth months in the beginning of the year and understated toward the end of the year. 2 Following the same reasoning, we should find similar anomalies using weight-for-age but not with weight-for-height. Figure A 3 in the online appendix...
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Mothers' Social Status and Children's Health: Evidence From Joint Households in Rural India

Diane Coffey, Reetika Khera, Dean Spears
Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1981–2002.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-10217164
Published: 01 October 2022
... questionnaire in which she reported having some decision-making power. The top row of Table 1 shows the average height-for-age in each subgroup in each survey round. Height-for-age is given in terms of z scores, or standard deviations from the World Health Organization (WHO) mean height...
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Local Social Inequality, Economic Inequality, and Disparities in Child Height in India

Diane Coffey, Ashwini Deshpande, Jeffrey Hammer, Dean Spears
Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1427–1452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00794-2
Published: 15 July 2019
... several regressions of this form. First, we compute average differences in child height by running a regression with no explanatory factors. Then, to estimate differences in child height at the same level of SES, we control for a set of dummy variables about the household’s SES. Unlike the decomposition...
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Height and the normal distribution: evidence from italian military data

Brian A’hearn, Franco Peracchi, Giovanni Vecchi
Demography (2009) 46 (1): 1–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.0.0049
Published: 01 February 2009
... 2003). Though the variation of individual height is dominated by randomly distributed genetic potential, variation in average height over time or across socioeconomic groups is driven by systematic differences in diet, disease environment, workload, and health care. To the extent...
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Anthropometric age profiles by regions and stages of economic development. The upper panel shows weighted local polynomial smooths in six regions of the developing world. The lower panel shows age group differences by country and region, measured as the difference in weighted average height-for-age (or weight-for-age) z score in the country between children aged 21–24 months and children aged 0–3 months. The line represents a linear fit. Regions are abbreviated as follows: East Asia and Pacific (EAP), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia (SA), sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Anthropometric age profiles by regions and stages of economic development. ...

in Age-Specific Correlates of Child Growth > Demography
Published: 04 January 2016
height-for-age (or weight-for-age) z score in the country between children aged 21–24 months and children aged 0–3 months. The line represents a linear fit. Regions are abbreviated as follows: East Asia and Pacific (EAP), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Middle East More
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Age-Specific Correlates of Child Growth

Matthias Rieger, Sofia Karina Trommlerová
Demography (2016) 53 (1): 241–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-015-0449-3
Published: 04 January 2016
... height-for-age (or weight-for-age) z score in the country between children aged 21–24 months and children aged 0–3 months. The line represents a linear fit. Regions are abbreviated as follows: East Asia and Pacific (EAP), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Middle East...
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Children of Migrants: The Cumulative Impact of Parental Migration on Children’s Education and Health Outcomes in China

Xin Meng, Chikako Yamauchi
Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1677–1714.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-017-0613-z
Published: 21 September 2017
...] Father’s Years of Education –0.002 –0.006 [0.004] [0.004] Father’s Height 0.002 –0.001 [0.002] [0.002] Number of Household Members (2008) 0.005 0.022** [0.007] [0.007] Village-Wide Average Household per Capita Income (2008) 0 0 [0.000] [0.000] Distance to Nearest...
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Birth-interval dynamics in rural Bangladesh and maternal weight

Kathleen Ford, Sandra L. Huffman, A. K. M. A. Chowdhury, Stan Becker, Hubert Allen ...
Demography (1989) 26 (3): 425–437.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061602
Published: 01 August 1989
... was 40.4 kg with a standard deviation of 4.6 kg. The average height of the women was 147.9 ern with a standard deviation of 5.2 ern. The mean arm circumference ranged between 21. 5 ern and 22.1 em with a standard deviation of 1.7 ern, and the mean hematocrit was 35 percent with a standard deviation of 3.7...
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Does race matter? Children’s height in Brazil and South Africa

Sarah Burgard
Demography (2002) 39 (4): 763–790.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0034
Published: 01 November 2002
... Height in Brazil and South Africa 771 for age, and about 28% are stunted. In the Brazilian sample, children average about 0.6 standard deviation below the reference population, and about 13% are stunted. The height- for-age scores for children of white mothers (henceforth, white children) are closest...
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Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor, and Spatial Aptitudes

Michael Baker, Kirsten Cornelson
Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1749–1775.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0706-3
Published: 14 September 2018
... for height diminishes the correlation of the log odds of employment and the DOT feeling variable. We calculated the average male height by occupation using the 1990–1994 NHIS and entered this as an additional control in regressions specification reported in Table 2 . The results, reported elsewhere (Baker...
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A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs

Robert W. Fogel, Dora L. Costa
Demography (1997) 34 (1): 49–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2061659
Published: 01 February 1997
... half a century earlier in France and its rate of decline during the first wave was more rapid.' 52 DEMOGRAPHY, VOLUME 34·NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 1997 TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVERAGE FINAL HEIGHTS (CM) OF MEN WHO REACHED MATURITY BETWEEN 1750 AND 1875 IN SIX EUROPEAN POPULATIONS, BY QUARTER CENTURIES (1) (2) (3...
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Place and Child Health: The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries

Payal Hathi, Sabrina Haque, Lovey Pant, Diane Coffey, Dean Spears
Demography (2017) 54 (1): 337–360.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0538-y
Published: 09 January 2017
... developing countries accounts for a large fraction of international differences in average child height. However, Spears ( 2013 ) did not focus on the internal validity of the sanitation–population density interaction. The following analyses are the first to use micro-level data from all available DHS...
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