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Title: Handedness and Earnings
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1. Ruebeck, Christopher S.
Harrington, Joseph E., Jr.
Moffitt, Robert A.
Handedness and Earnings
NBER Working Paper No. 12387, National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2006.
Also: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12387.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Keyword(s): Earnings; Education; Gender Differences; Handedness; Labor Market Demographics

We examine whether handedness is related to performance in the labor market and, in particular, earnings. We find a significant wage effect for left-handed men with high levels of education. This positive wage effect is strongest among those who have lower than average earnings relative to those of similar high education. This effect is not found among women.
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Ruebeck, Christopher S., Joseph E. Harrington and Robert A. Moffitt. "Handedness and Earnings." NBER Working Paper No. 12387, National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2006.