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

Anne Case, Christina Paxson and Mahnaz Islam

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 102, issue 3, 174-176

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.

Keywords: Height; Labor; markets; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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