Arbeitspapier

Height and Leadership

This paper studies the relationship between height and leadership. Using data from a representative sample of Swedish men, I document that tall men are significantly more likely to attain managerial positions. An increase in height by 10 centimeters (3.94 inches) is associated with a 2.2 percentage point increase in the probability of holding a managerial position. Selection into managerial positions explains about 15 percent of the unconditional height wage premium. However, at least half of the height-leadership correlation is due to a positive correlation between height and cognitive and noncognitive ability.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 835

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Discrimination
Thema
Height
Beauty
Leadership
Discrimination
Biologie
Führungskräfte
Diskriminierung
Schweden

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lindqvist, Erik
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
2010

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lindqvist, Erik
  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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