height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other …

We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of … earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests that this is indeed the case. Higher parental education shifts the … earnings profile significantly to the left – the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks …

wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating the tip credit on employment and earnings in the U.S. restaurant … reduction in the tip credit increases weekly earnings but reduces employment in the full services restaurant industry and for …

Previous studies have shown that both height and weight are associated with wages. However, by focusing on interpreting … the partial effects of either height or weight on wages while holding all else constant, some gaps in our understanding of … establish that a flexible analysis of height and weight provides a useful and meaningful proxy for beauty. A similar flexible …

We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and … the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when … hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …