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 …