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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Height, Health, and Inequality: The Distribution of Adult Heights in India

  • Angus Deaton
American Economic Review
vol. 98, no. 2, May 2008
(pp. 468–74)
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Citation

Deaton, Angus. 2008. "Height, Health, and Inequality: The Distribution of Adult Heights in India." American Economic Review, 98 (2): 468–74. DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.2.468

JEL Classification

  • D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
  • I12 Health Production
  • O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
  • J11 Demographic Trends and Forecasts; General Migration