Height and Happiness in a Developing Country |
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Authors: | Kitae Sohn |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Economics,Kookmin University,Seoul,South Korea |
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Abstract: | This paper analyzes the Indonesian Family Life Survey to estimate the relationship between height and happiness in a developing country, Indonesia. This paper finds that tall men and women are happier than their short counterparts and that the magnitude of the relationship is large. More important, a parsimonious set of channels is identified to substantially explain the relationship between height and happiness: education and earnings for men, and education and relative position of earnings for women. However, for men but not for women, height still exhibits a non-negligible relationship with happiness even after controlling for an extensive array of covariates. |
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