We investigate the effect of height on earnings, occupational choices and a subjective measure of well-being among … labor market. Cognitive skills, co-determined with stature early in life, do not explain much of the height earnings premium … require brain and social skills, not brawn. The unexplained share of the height earnings premium reflects other labor market …

and choices as more common than is the case. We establish this \false consensus" bias in terms of happiness, political … limited to the distribution of hard to observe characteristics and choices but also to weight and height. We also show that …

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 …

theoretically motivate the role of height in earnings by providing a Bioeconomic rationale for stature and height determining … individual wages, and estimate height-augmented Mincerian earnings functions with data from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition …This paper considers whether ethnicity conditions the return and access to health capital in China. Given that the wage-height …

Using a data set of Taiwanese female graduates in 2006, this study finds that height and earnings are positively … extracurricular activities (non-cognitive ability), and not because they work in a highly paid occupation. We find that statistical … discrimination (or perceptual bias) is most likely to play a role in determining the entry earnings of female graduates. In addition …

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 …

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 …

intelligence, personality traits, education and occupation were all significant correlates of mental well-being. Structural …

native born and foreign born, as reported in the 2000 Census, one percent sample. Working in an occupation that requires … job, has a large effect on earnings among the native born, and an even larger effect among the foreign born. This effect …, are held constant. Earnings increase with the respondent’s own proficiency in English, with the English proficiency …