The Height Premium in Earnings_The Role of Physical Capacity and gnitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

The association between stature and favorable labor market outcomes has been extensivelydocumented. Recent studies have attributed this height premium to cognitive and socialskills. We offer an alternative explanation, where the premium mainly arises from the positiveassociation between height and physical capacity. Accounting for the latter reduces theheight premium by about 80 pe..