Making sense of the labor market height premium: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey.
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.
Case
Anne
A
Princeton University and NBER.
Paxson
Christina
C
Islam
Mahnaz
M