| Summary: | 碩士 === 東吳大學 === 經濟學系 === 102 === In the past few years, lots of Economists have discussed the benefits of height, especially the benefits in the labor market. In this research, we use the 13th project of Panel Study of Family Dynamics to be the observations, and let wages be independent variables. In order to find out the effects of height in the labor market, we use four different kinds of ordinary least square model to analyze their wages. Comparing the differences between four coefficients of height, we can infer that height may affect labors’ wage through education or job characteristics.
In this research, we also use wage of the first job and wage of the current job at the survey to find out whether employers discriminate labors’ height in the labor market. We analyze the differences between coefficients of height by using different wages but in a similar model. Height is significant for both men and women’s first-job wages. It means that employers did discriminate all labors when they just entered the labor market. However, the result of current wage reveals a significant height–wage premium for women but not for men. This result implies that cognitive ability explains the effect of height on life-time earnings for men and suggest that discrimination against short persons may play a role for women.
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