Making sense of the labor market height premium: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

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Journal: Economics Letters

Year: 2009

Volume: 102

Issue: 3

Pages: 174-176

Authors (3)

Case, Anne (Princeton University) Paxson, Christina (Brown University) Islam, Mahnaz (not in RePEc)

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Abstract

We use data from the British Household Panel Survey to examine the labor market premium in height. Most of the premium is explained by higher average educational attainment and sorting into higher-status occupations and industries by those who are taller.

Making sense of the labor market height premium: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey

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