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This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean adult heights and living standards. If adult height is set by the balance between food intake and...
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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
This paper explores the relationship between adult heights and the distribution of income across populations of individuals. There is a long literature that examines the relationship between mean adult heights and living standards. If adult height is set by the balance between food intake and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005548096
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
We use the Immigrants Admitted to the United States (micro-data) supplemented with special tabulations from the Department of Homeland Security to examine how family reunification impacts the age composition of new immigrant cohorts since 1980. We develop a family migration multiplier measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150089