Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2009
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.
Published in
Economics Letters
Volume
Volume: 102 (3):174-176
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2008.12.011
Subjects
Notes
Previously 'In press, accepted manuscript' 31 Dec. 2008
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