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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w26325 |
来源ID | Working Paper 26325 |
The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height | |
Michael Baker; Kirsten Cornelson | |
发表日期 | 2019-09-30 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We revisit the US evidence of the association of height with socioeconomic status. We document non linear height profiles that are different for males and females. For males the profile is a spline function with a single node at mean height. Below mean height there is a sharply positive slope with height, while the function is roughly horizontal above the mean. For females the spline has two nodes. There is positive slope below mean height and in the top 10 percent of heights, and the profile is roughly horizontal between the mean and the 90th percentile. Remarkably, these stylized profiles describe the association of height with socioeconomic outcomes ranging from teenage cognitive scores to adult poverty, suggesting a common origin. We investigate some of the implications of these findings for analyses of the contributions of cognitive and non cognitive skills to the height profile in wages. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26325 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
引用统计 | |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583997 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael Baker,Kirsten Cornelson. The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height. 2019. |
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