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People have studied this. The effect is IIRC each inch of height for a man (within the sampled range) confers a 1-2% increase in income, after adjusting for oth
by scarmig 8y ago
People have studied this. The effect is IIRC each inch of height for a man (within the sampled range) confers a 1-2% increase in income, after adjusting for other easily measured factors (race, education, hours worked, etc.)
To give a sense of scale, a 5'4" man faces a larger "height gap" than the adjusted gender gap for women.
- rjf72 8y agoThis doesn't necessarily mean what you think it would mean. As always the problem with social sciences is that correlation != causation. For instance taller people also have higher IQs. [1] Its for reasons like this that I think we're rather more likely to recreate Frankenstein than Gattaca. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_and_intelligence
- kbenson 8y agoAlthough it's entirely possible that height and/or attractiveness as an advantageous cultural norm also explains this. If height is seen as attractive, and beauty leads to more opportunities in education (more accessible peer tutoring partners, better study group interaction, more likely to get help from a teacher, etc). But yes, teasing out the actual causes for anything like that seems impossibly hard (without breaking ethical guidelines), thus we have a lot of conjecture.