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conditions as measured by median income, unemployment rate or poverty rate do not have a strong correlation with height or weight …
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We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and … the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when …
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We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and … the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011162063
We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other differences. The twin pair difference estimates from...
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We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other differences. The twin pair difference estimates from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051711
information on the secular trend in height, weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) and examines their relation with Real Gross Domestic … Product. From 1951 to 2010 the girls’ height approximately increased by 6.2cm and weight by 6.8kg, while the boys’ height … increased by 12.2cm and weight by 17.3kg. Prior to 1991 mean BMI in girls was higher than in boys, but from 1991 on, the …
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, we find that an estimator of the height premium for females is downward-biased if weight is omitted from the model. …
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conditions as measured by median income, unemployment rate or poverty rate do not have a strong correlation with height or weight …
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weight status of people in the US than in Western Europe. …
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weight, height, and body mass index (BMI), separately by gender and accounting for interviewers' characteristics or fixed …. We show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when attractiveness is …
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