Differences in height by education among 371,105 Dutch military conscripts. First published online: 22 November 2014

Ying Huang; F.W.A. van Poppel; L.H. Lumey

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2014.11.002

Differences in height by education among 371,105 Dutch military conscripts. First published online: 22 November 2014

Ying Huang, F.W.A. van Poppel, L.H. Lumey

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

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Abstract

Adult height is associated with a variety of familial and socio-economic factors and large, well-defined populations are needed for a reliable assessment of their relative contributions. We therefore analyzed recorded heights from the military health examinations of 18-year conscripts in the Netherlands born between 1944 and 1947 and observed large differences by their attained education and by their father's occupation. The 5.1cm height gradient from lowest to highest education level was more than twice as large as the gradient between father's occupation levels. The education gradient was not explained by common determinants of height including paternal occupation as a measure of familial background, region of birth, family size, or religion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	202-207
Journal	Economics & Human Biology
Volume	17
Issue number	April
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2014.11.002
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Height
Socio-economic background
education
cognition
military conscripts
father's occupation
family size
religion
region of birth
SSCI

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