This paper provides estimates of the long-term effects on height and health of a large income shock experienced in … regional variation in the timing of this shock to identify its effects. We examine the effects on the adult height, health, and … life expectancy of children born in the years and regions affected by the Phylloxera. The shock decreased long run height …

type of skills. We link height-for-age at the age of 7 to 8 to a set of psychosocial competencies measured at the age of 11 … that height-for-age predicts the three observed psychosocial measures. Auxiliary estimations suggest that the relationship …

provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the famine twenty years later, on the height of young adults aged 19 … group such height loss may lead to income losses of around 5% per year over their lifetime. The evidence also suggests that …

than African firstborns; the Indian height disadvantage emerges with the second child and then increases with birth order …. This pattern persists when we compare height between siblings, and also holds for health inputs such as vaccinations. Three … order gradient among Indian children and, consequently, the overall height deficit. First, the Indian firstborn height …