Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes
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- 1 June 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Political Economy
- Vol. 116 (3) , 499-532
- https://doi.org/10.1086/589524
Abstract
The well‐known association between height and earnings is often thought to reflect factors such as self‐esteem, social dominance, and discrimination. We offer a simpler explanation: height is posit...Keywords
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