In both historical and contemporary populations, taller individuals have been shown to fare better in marriage markets. Height has been positively associated with the propensity to marry, length of marriage, and the education and economic outcomes of marriage partners. These associations are most commonly identified for male samples. Studies using female samples are few in number and mixed in their findings. This study uses a pooled sample of national surveys from 64 countries to evaluate how women’s height may relate to the timing of marriage and partner characteristics. The findings suggest that women’s height shows modest associations to the timing of marriage, partner education, and partner occupation status. The strongest effects from height occur toward the extremes of the height distribution. There is some variation in these relationships across three major developing regions (Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia), and for education in particular, the association is shown to be stronger in countries with shorter average female height.

在历史和现代人口中，较高的人在婚姻市场上的表现都更好。身高与结婚倾向，结婚时间以及伴侣的教育和经济成果呈正相关。这些关联最常见于男性样本。使用女性样本进行的研究数量很少，而且其发现混杂在一起。这项研究使用了来自64个国家的国家调查的汇总样本，以评估女性身高如何与结婚时间和伴侣特征相关联。研究结果表明，女性的身高与结婚时间，伴侣教育和伴侣职业状况之间存在适度的联系。来自高度的最强影响发生在高度分布的极端处。