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Title: Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes
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Case, Anne Paxson, Christina |
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Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes Journal of Political Economy 116,3 (June 2008):499-532. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/589524 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); British Cohort Study (BCS); Cognitive Ability; Cross-national Analysis; Digit Span (also see Memory for Digit Span - WISC); Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study; Genetics; Height; Labor Market Outcomes; Modeling, Fixed Effects; NCDS - National Child Development Study (British); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Racial Differences; Siblings; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT The well-known association between height and earnings is often thought to reflect factors such as self-esteem, social dominance, and discrimination. We offer a simpler explanation: height is positively associated with cognitive ability, which is rewarded in the labor market. Using data from the United States and the United Kingdom, we show that taller children have higher average cognitive test scores and that these test scores explain a large portion of the height premium in earnings. Children who have higher test scores also experience earlier adolescent growth spurts, so that height in adolescence serves as a marker of cognitive ability. |
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Case, Anne and Christina Paxson. "Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes." Journal of Political Economy 116,3 (June 2008):499-532.
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