Tall people are smarter than short people

New economic study confirms what Randy Newman are ready knew:

Tall people have higher self-esteem, social dominance, and now a new economic study finds that tall people have higher cognitive ability. Interesting work. Full CIte:

Journal of Political Economy, 2008, vol. 116, no. 3]
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Stature and Status: Height, Ability, and Labor Market Outcomes
Anne Case and
Christina Paxson
Princeton University

Summary: The well-known association between height and earnings is often thought to reflect factors such as self-esteem, social dominance, and discrimination. We offer a simpler explanation: height is positively associated with cognitive ability, which is rewarded in the labor market. Using data from the United States and the United Kingdom, we show that taller children have higher average cognitive test scores and that these test scores explain a large portion of the height premium in earnings. Children who have higher test scores also experience earlier adolescent growth spurts, so that height in adolescence serves as a marker of cognitive ability.