The Effect of Adolescent Experience on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Height

By Nicola Persico, Andrew Postlewaite, Dan Silverman. Journal of Political Economy, 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Thomas J. Dohmen
2. Erik Lindqvist
3. Armin Falk
4. Uwe Sunde
5. David Huffman
6. T. Cornelissen
7. A. Leigh
8. M. Kortt

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Thomas J. Dohmen
2. Armin Falk
3. Erik Lindqvist
4. David Huffman
5. Uwe Sunde
6. A. Leigh
7. M. Kortt
8. Stephen Lipscomb

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany (2007, positive): “When analyzing the wage premium of body height during adolescence, Persico et al. (2004) find that part of the height premium may be explained by athletic participation and part of it by greater levels of schooling, suggesting that body height may directly influence the two.”
• Height and Leadership (2010, positive): “13 See Judge and Cable (2004) and Persico et al. (2004) for a discussion of how height may affect the acquisition of skills.”
• What makes a leader? Relative age and high school leadership (2008, positive): “Persico, Postlewaite, and Silverman (2004) find that taller individuals at age 16 enjoy a significant adult wage premium.”
• Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey (2005, neutral): “The lottery question makes it possible to estimate the coefficient of relative risk aversion for each individual in the sample.”
• Beauty vs. brains: Early labor market outcomes of high school graduates (2009, positive): “In particular, researchers have found associations between wages and attractiveness (Hamermesh and Biddle, 1994), obesity (Cawley, 2004), height (Persico et al., 2004), and leadership skills during high school (Kuhn and Weinberger, 2005) among other measures.”
• Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants and Behavioral Consequences (2009, positive): “The SOEP does include a hypothetical lottery question, which asks people how much of an endowment 39 Persico et al. (2004) find that height in adolescence, more than height in adulthood, has an impact on wages later in life.”
• Skills in the city (2009, neutral): “22 This literature considers, for instance, the returns to beauty (Hamermesh and Biddle, 1994), height (Persico et al., 2004), leadership (Kuhn and Weinberger, 2005), and interpersonal skills (Borghans et al.”