Height, skills, and labor market outcomes in Mexico
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☆ I thankDavid Cutler, Larry Katz, Jeff Liebman, DuncanT inar participants at Academia Sinica, Harvard, and the P ments. This research was supported by the NSF Gradu Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Polic and the NBER Aging Program (NIA Grant T32-AG000186) E-mail address: [email protected]. 1 See, for example, Persico et al. (2004) and Case and Pax Lundborg et al. (2009) on Sweden; Thomas and Strauss (1 Bouis (1991) on the Philippines. The return to height was ple among slaves in the antebellumAmerican South (Marg 19th century German workers (Komlos, 1990).
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تاریخ انتشار 2014