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Does race matter? Children’s height in Brazil and South Africa
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Demography (2002) 39 (4): 763–790.
Published: 01 November 2002
... Medicine , 18 , 289 – 95 . Chaning-Pearce S.M. , & Solomon L. ( 1986 ). A Longitudinal Study of Height and Weight in Black and White Johannesburg Children . South African Medical Journal , 70 , 743 – 46 . Christopher A.J. ( 1994 ). The Atlas of Apartheid . New York...
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Height and the normal distribution: evidence from italian military data
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Demography (2009) 46 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 2009
...Brian A’hearn; Franco Peracchi; Giovanni Vecchi Abstract Researchers modeling historical heights have typically relied on the restrictive assumption of a normal distribution, only the mean of which is affected by age, income, nutrition, disease, and similar influences. To avoid these restrictive...
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Adult height and childhood disease
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 647–669.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Carlos Bozzoli; Angus Deaton; Climent Quintana-Domeque Abstract Taller populations are typically richer populations, and taller individuals live longer and earn more. In consequence, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate...
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Short Lives: The Impact of Parental Death on Early-Life Mortality and Height in the Netherlands, 1850–1940
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 255–279.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Björn Quanjer; Ingrid K. van Dijk; Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge Abstract We investigate how experiencing parental death in infancy, childhood, or adolescence affected individuals' health using two distinct measures: mortality before age 20 and young adult height. Using two complementary indicators...
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Local Social Inequality, Economic Inequality, and Disparities in Child Height in India
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Demography (2019) 56 (4): 1427–1452.
Published: 15 July 2019
...Diane Coffey; Ashwini Deshpande; Jeffrey Hammer; Dean Spears Abstract This study investigates disparities in child height—an important marker of population-level health—among population groups in rural India. India is an informative context in which to study processes of health disparities because...
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in Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes
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Published: 27 September 2011
Fig. 3 Estimated waist-to-height ratio densities for white and black females
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Maternal age and height. Estimates are based on a semiparametric lowess mod...
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in Maternal Age and Offspring Adult Health: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
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Published: 28 August 2012
Fig. 3 Maternal age and height. Estimates are based on a semiparametric lowess model. Black line corresponds to Model 1 and controls for only demographic characteristics birth year, age, age squared, sex, and race/ethnicity. Gray line corresponds to Model 4 and adds as controls maternal
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in Birth Intervals and Health in Adulthood: A Comparison of Siblings Using Swedish Register Data
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Published: 21 May 2018
Fig. 2 Height at ages 17–20 by preceding and subsequent birth intervals, Swedish men born in 1962–1979. The analysis population for examining preceding birth intervals consists of individuals in sibling groups with at least three children, excluding the firstborn. The analysis population
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in Health Measurement in Population Surveys: Combining Information from Self-reported and Observer-Measured Health Indicators
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Published: 20 April 2011
Fig. 3 LISH means with respect to height quartiles
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Height and weight for U.S. blacks and whites in the nineteenth century. Ave...
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in A Weighty Issue: Diminished Net Nutrition Among the U.S. Working Class in the Nineteenth Century
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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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Published: 04 January 2016
Fig. 1 Anthropometric age profiles. Age profiles of height-for-age (HAZ) and weight-for-age (WAZ) z scores. Weighted local polynomial smooths. Dashed lines represent 95 % confidence intervals
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Published: 04 January 2016
Fig. 6 Residuals of anthropometric z scores. Residuals of height-for-age (HAZ) and weight-for-age (WAZ) z scores. Weighted local polynomial smooths of residuals from weighted regressions of HAZ and WAZ on five sets of variables: no explanatory variables (gray solid line), 10 variables from
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Height distribution of respondents from Migrante and the Mexican Migration ...
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Fig. 4 Height distribution of respondents from Migrante and the Mexican Migration Project
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in Short Lives: The Impact of Parental Death on Early-Life Mortality and Height in the Netherlands, 1850–1940
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Published: 01 February 2023
Fig. 2 Trends in conscription height at about age 20 and male mortality rates at ages 0–20 in the Netherlands, 1830–1950. The gray shading indicates the research period. Sources: Historical Sample of the Netherlands ( HSN 2018 ) and the Human Mortality Database (2020) .
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in Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
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Published: 28 January 2019
Fig. 1 Mean height-for-age z scores (HAZ) by calendar month of birth (MOB). The vertical bars indicate standard errors of the mean HAZ. Source: DHS data for 990,231 children from 62 countries, various years.
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in Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
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Published: 28 January 2019
Fig. 2 Mean height-for-age z scores (HAZ) by age in months after a round age. The vertical bars indicate standard errors of the mean HAZ. Source: DHS data for 990,231 children from 62 countries, various years.
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in Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
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Published: 28 January 2019
Fig. 3 Mean height-for-age z scores (HAZ) by age in months. Source: DHS data for 990,231 children from 62 countries, various years.
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in Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
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Published: 28 January 2019
Fig. 5 Mean height-for-age z scores (HAZ) by calendar month of birth (MOB) for major regions and selected countries. SSA = sub-Saharan Africa; MNA = Middle East and North Africa; ECA = eastern Europe and central Asia; LAC = Latin America and Caribbean. Source: DHS data for 960,012 children
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in Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
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Published: 28 January 2019
Fig. 6 Mean height-for-age z scores (HAZ) by additional months for major regions and selected countries. SSA = sub-Saharan Africa; MNA = Middle East and North Africa; ECA = eastern Europe and central Asia; LAC = Latin America and Caribbean. Corresponding graphs where controls are included can
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in Misreporting Month of Birth: Diagnosis and Implications for Research on Nutrition and Early Childhood in Developing Countries
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Published: 28 January 2019
Fig. 7 Magnitude of December–January gap by standard deviation of height-for-age z scores (HAZ) in 163 surveys. Source: DHS data for 990,231 children from a total of 163 surveys across 62 countries, various years.
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