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Height and cognition at work : labor market productivity in a low income setting

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Fatter attraction: anthropometric and socioeconomic characteristics in the marriage market

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2009

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...

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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences

Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2013

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 …

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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences

Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 24 (2013), pp. 86-96

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Creativity, education or what? : on the measurement of regional human capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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