Table 2.

Height in adulthood and father’s social class

	BCS 70: Height at age 30 OLS Regression		NCDS 58: Height at age 33 OLS Regression		Whitehall II Mean height OLS Regression
	All	Own grade is Prof, Managerial, Skilled non-manual	All	Own grade is Prof, Managerial, Skilled non-manual	Own grade is Administrative; Prof/Exec; Clerical
Indicator: Father’s Class was
Professional	1.764*** (0.547)	0.958 (0.803)	3.286*** (0.401)	3.145*** (0.543)	2.056*** (0.456)
Managerial	1.806*** (0.486)	1.257* (0.757)	2.370*** (0.305)	1.789*** (0.449)	1.799*** (0.405)
Skilled, non-manual	1.460*** (0.533)	0.948 (0.804)	1.467*** (0.324)	1.241*** (0.474)	1.845*** (0.427)
Skilled, manual	−0.006 (0.472)	−0.571 (0.751)	1.044*** (0.261)	1.091*** (0.411)	1.085*** (0.401)
Semi-skilled	0.127 (0.515)	−0.012 (0.812)	0.616** (0.312)	0.230 (0.491)	0.878* (0.473)
F-test (p-value) Sig of father classes	21.45 (0.0000)	11.39 (0.0000)	23.98 (0.0000)	10.59 (0.0000)	8.27 (0.0000)
Chi-square test (p-value), equality of coefficients	6.58 (0.2541)		14.03 (0.0154)
Number obs	7347	4040	9256	4528	6919

Notes. OLS regression coefficients reported, with standard errors presented in parentheses. All regressions include indicators for ethnicity and sex. Whitehall II regressions also include controls for age and age squared at phase 1. In all regressions, the benchmark for father’s social class is unskilled. The chi-square tests for equality of coefficients test the null hypothesis that the coefficients on the father’s class indicators are equal across columns 1 and 2 (BCS) and across columns 3 and 4 (NCDS).