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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 835
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Discrimination
- Subject
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Height
Beauty
Leadership
Discrimination
Biologie
Führungskräfte
Diskriminierung
Schweden
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Lindqvist, Erik
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
- (where)
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Stockholm
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Lindqvist, Erik
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Time of origin
- 2010
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