{"id":12547,"date":"2015-05-21T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12547"},"modified":"2015-05-21T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T05:01:29","slug":"the-economics-of-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-height\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052115_0500_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"641\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joe Pinsker looked at the benefits of being tall:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every inch of height is, on average, worth an extra $800 a year in earnings.<\/li>\n<li>Compounded over a 30 year career, that&#8217;s several hundreds of thousands of dollars that people will enjoy just for being tall.<\/li>\n<li>Some inches matter more than others. The sharpest jump in earnings is for those between the heights of 5&#8217;4&#8243; and 5&#8217;6&#8243;.<\/li>\n<li>By the time you reach the six footers, additional inches don&#8217;t mean much for earnings.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just about the money though \u2013 its status. Bishops tend to be taller than preachers.<\/li>\n<li>Taller people are also more likely to be entrepreneurs, and are more satisfied with life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why height may lead to extra dollars, how attractiveness affects earnings, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/05\/the-financial-perks-of-being-tall\/393518\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/05\/the-financial-perks-of-being-tall\/393518\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Pinsker looked at the benefits of being tall: Every inch of height is, on average, worth an extra $800 a year in earnings. Compounded over a 30 year career, that&#8217;s several hundreds of thousands of dollars that people will enjoy just for being tall. Some inches matter more than others. The sharpest jump in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/052115_0500_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12550,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12547\/revisions\/12550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}