Weighing the wages of thin

Have you ever been convinced that colleagues whose work is just as good as yours earn more than you simply because they are better looking? Or taller? Or slimmer? Michael Owyang, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, examines some of the research on this in a paper written with colleague Kristie Engemann.

That a disproportionate number of CEOs are of above-average height is already known to those who have read Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink.