The rise and fall of SES gradients in heights around the world
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- dc.contributor.author Aurino, Elisabetta
- dc.contributor.author Lleras-Muney, Adriana
- dc.contributor.author Tarozzi, Alessandro, 1971-
- dc.contributor.author Tinoco, Brendan
- dc.date.accessioned 2025-04-22T07:03:21Z
- dc.date.available 2025-04-22T07:03:21Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
- dc.description.abstract We use data from a large sample of low- and middle-income countries to study the association (or “gradient”) between child height and maternal education. We show that the gap in height between high- and low-SES children is small at birth, rises throughout childhood, and declines in adolescence as girls and boys go through puberty. This inverted U-shaped pattern is consistent with a degree of catch-up in linear height among children of low- relative to high-SES families, in partial contrast to the argument that height deficits cannot be overcome after the early years of life. This finding appears to be explained by the association between SES and the timing of puberty and therefore of the adolescent growth spurt: low-SES children start their adolescent growth spurt later and stop growing at later ages as well.en
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- dc.identifier.citation Aurino E, Lleras-Muney A, Tarozzi A, Tinoco B. The rise and fall of SES gradients in heights around the world. J Health Econ. 2023 Sep;91:102797. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102797
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102797
- dc.identifier.issn 0167-6296
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70177
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Elsevier
- dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Health Economics. 2023 Sep;91:102797
- dc.rights Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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- dc.subject.keyword Heighten
- dc.subject.keyword Socio-economic statusen
- dc.subject.keyword Maternal schoolingen
- dc.subject.keyword Catch-upen
- dc.subject.keyword Low- and middle-income countriesen
- dc.title The rise and fall of SES gradients in heights around the worlden
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