Table 5.

Association of size at birth with adult height

	Coefficient	Standard error	t	P > |t|	Standardized coefficients
Birth weight (kg)	2.58	0.51	5.09	0.00	0.22
Length at birth (cm)	0.23	0.22	1.02	0.31	0.04
Mother married	0.73	4.44	0.16	0.87	0.01
Maternal age	0.06	0.15	0.43	0.67	0.07
Square of maternal age	−0.00	0.00	−0.00	1.00	−0.00
Number of pregnancies	−0.27	0.14	−1.97	0.05	−0.09
Occupation Reference category: Professionals and managers
Clerical	0.01	1.18	0.00	1.00	0.00
Sales	−0.63	1.36	−0.46	0.64	−0.03
Service	−0.12	1.63	−0.07	0.94	−0.00
Manufacturing workers	−1.16	1.07	−1.09	0.28	−0.10
Laborers	−1.44	1.40	−1.03	0.30	−0.06
Farmers	0.31	1.76	0.18	0.86	0.01
Farm managers	−0.91	1.38	−0.66	0.51	−0.04
No occupation	−4.61	3.06	−1.51	0.13	−0.06
Education Reference category: Some primary schooling
Some high school	0.71	0.62	1.15	0.25	0.05
Completed high school	1.80	0.72	2.51	0.01	0.11
Some tertiary	−0.03	1.21	−0.03	0.98	−0.00
Tertiary qualification	1.23	1.91	0.65	0.52	0.03
Unknown education	3.84	1.43	2.68	0.01	0.10
Constant (cm)	155.61	6.57	23.68	0.00	.
Observations	664
R-squared	0.13

Note: Additional controls for exact year of birth omitted. Only men aged 21 or over included. Dependent variable: Adult height in centimetres recorded in World War II records