Sorting by Height: Education and Economic Outcomes of Women in Less-Developed Countries.
Taller height is commonly found to correlate with educational and economic outcomes. Most studies focus on a relationship to earnings, and consider samples from individual countries. This paper takes a broader view by evaluating the associations between height, education, and economic outcomes in a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 55; no. 11; pp. 2347 - 2365 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2019
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