The value of male height in the marriage market
© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2007, this paper estimates the value of relative height (relative to the spouse's height) in the marriage market of a developing country. The results indicate that the value of a 1 cm reduction in the husband&#...
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| author | Sohn, Kitae |
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| description | © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2007, this paper estimates the value of relative height (relative to the spouse's height) in the marriage market of a developing country. The results indicate that the value of a 1 cm reduction in the husband's height relative to his wife's height is about 3% of his earnings. 3% of the mean of yearly earnings amounts to Rp. 492,000 or US$54 in 2007. That value is reduced to 1% when earnings-generating attributes are controlled for. This difference of 2% points can be considered the value that women attach to their husbands' earnings-generating attributes; meanwhile, the remaining 1% suggests that there are still other attributes that women look for in male height. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-621712018-02-01T05:57:05Z The value of male height in the marriage market Sohn, Kitae © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2007, this paper estimates the value of relative height (relative to the spouse's height) in the marriage market of a developing country. The results indicate that the value of a 1 cm reduction in the husband's height relative to his wife's height is about 3% of his earnings. 3% of the mean of yearly earnings amounts to Rp. 492,000 or US$54 in 2007. That value is reduced to 1% when earnings-generating attributes are controlled for. This difference of 2% points can be considered the value that women attach to their husbands' earnings-generating attributes; meanwhile, the remaining 1% suggests that there are still other attributes that women look for in male height. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62171 10.1016/j.ehb.2015.05.004 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Sohn, Kitae The value of male height in the marriage market |
| title | The value of male height in the marriage market |
| title_full | The value of male height in the marriage market |
| title_fullStr | The value of male height in the marriage market |
| title_full_unstemmed | The value of male height in the marriage market |
| title_short | The value of male height in the marriage market |
| title_sort | value of male height in the marriage market |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/62171 |