Height, wealth, and health: an overview with new data from three longitudinal studies.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Economics and Human Biology

• Publication date

  2009-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Economics

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  DOI 10.1016/j.ehb.2009.06.004PMID 19628438
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