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Height and Earnings: The Role of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

Författare

Summary, in English

We use large-scale register data on 450,000 Swedish males who underwent mandatory military enlistment at age 18, and a subsample of 150,000 siblings, to examine why tall people earn more. We show the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as family background and muscular strength for the height-earnings relationship. In addition, we show that a substantial height premium remains after these factors have been accounted for, which originates from very short people having low earnings. This is mostly explained by the sorting of short people into low-paid occupations, which may indicate discrimination by stature.

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

141-166

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Human Resources

Volym

49

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

University of Wisconsin Press

Ämne

  • Economic History

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0022-166X