Monday, September 29, 2008

Of matters, Tall and Short

I would like to be a couple of inches taller.

Early nutrition, I learn from a spate of articles is critical here. Europeans are now taller than Americans writes Krugman. North Koreans have been stunted as the South Koreans have risen in stature. The pronounced difference in height between the two countries is evidenced with a paper using data on North Korean escapees.

My fellow graduate student Sarah Adelman uses height as an identification strategy for early nutrition in her work on health in Africa.

I should have had those okra and spinach dished out by my mother.

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