Since 1995 approximately 325 publications on stature have appeared in the social sciences,
which is more than a four-fold increase in the rate of production relative to the period 1977 …

Background: The secular trend in the height of the US population has been almost
neglected in a comparative perspective, despite its being a useful indicator of early-life …

Historians of US race relations typically portray southern whites as reluctant to recognize or
act favorably upon complexion-based differences within the African American community …

When the Early Indicators project b senior investigators and four consul economists, one
was a demographer, thropology, and five were physicians. flected the central role assigned …

We trace the introduction and use of anthropometric indicators (height, weight, body mass
index) into development and labor economics in the late 1970s. These biological markers …