HEIGHT AND LEADERSHIP

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lindqvist, Erik
• 署名单位: Stockholm School of Economics; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00239
• 发表日期: 2012-11
• 页码: 1191-1196
• 关键词: labor-market outcomes; perceptual-distortion; physical appearance; intelligence; stature; association; ability; success; birth; MODEL

摘要

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% of the unconditional height-wage premium. However, about half of the height-leadership correlation is due to a positive correlation between height and cognitive and noncognitive ability.