Four Essays on the Economics of Height
Hiermeyer, Martin
Economists are interested in height for at least four reasons. One reason is that a correlation between heights and wages exists: On average, taller persons earn more than their shorter peers, making height an important control variable in any well-specified wage equation. A second reason is that authoritarian regimes tend to report conventional standard of living indicators, such as income, in an unreliable way. Accurate height information, h...