Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes

By Anne Case, Christina H. Paxson. Journal of Political Economy, 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities (2010, methodology): “We also include individuals’ body height as a composite indicator of health and nutritional conditions in early childhood development which has been shown to be a significant predictor of cognitive skill outcomes (Case and Paxson, 2008; Heineck, 2008).”
A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000 (2014, background): “Health and the quality of nutrition – especially during the first years of life – are important determinants of cognitive abilities (and numeracy), and hence this could be an alternative channel of causal impact (Currie, 2009; Case and Paxson, 2008).”
A century of trends in adult human height (2016, neutral): “There is also evidence that taller people on average have higher education, earnings, and possibly even social position ( Adair et al., 2013 ; Stulp et al., 2015 ; Barker et al., 2005 ; Strauss and Thomas, 1998 ; Chen and Zhou, 2007 ; Case and Paxson, 2008 ).”
Selection, Agriculture, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences (2013, background): “Cognitive ability scores in turn plausibly capture the verbal, or other non-physical capabilities often valued in non-agricultural activities (see e.g. Case and Paxson (2008) or Miguel and Hamory (2009)).”
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences (2011, neutral): “Figure 1 shows, as others have also shown (see Currie and Duncan Thomas 2001; Case and Paxson 2008, 2010; Flavio Cunha and Heckman 2008; Raj Chetty et al. 2010; Cunha, toll plazas in the three years before and after adoption.”
The height leadership advantage in men and women: Testing evolutionary psychology predictions about the perceptions of tall leaders (2013, background): “Furthermore, the idea that height is a general fitness indicator is supported by studies suggesting that taller individuals (male and female) are more intelligent (Case & Paxson, 2008; Kanazawa & Reyniers, 2009).”
No Child Left Behind: Subsidized Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes (2011, background): “In developed countries, adult height is typically attained before age 18 for boys (Case and Paxson, 2008).”
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market (2012, positive): “…Han, Norton, and Stearns, 2009), while height has a positive e¤ect on hourly wages, perhaps re ecting the fact that taller people are more likely to have reached their full cognitive potential (Case and Paxson, 2008) and/or may possess superior physical capacities (Lundborg, Nystedt, Rooth, 2009).”
What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes (2011, background): “On the one hand, Duncan et al. (2009) advocate that these differences might be because studies rely on different data sources, gathered in different countries at different times.”