Further to my post (”Some unpleasant anthropometric arithmetic”) below, I show simple Tobits of the malaise score against height but split by sex. The effect is much bigger for women: being short and female is particularly bad.
I have replicated this with the SHARE data and the results are qualitatively similar but much smaller in magnitude. So if the effect is “psychological” (i.e. due to stigma say & not just a marker for some other factor) is it that women are more emotionally sensitive to being of low stature?
Malaise @ 23, Tobit estimator
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| (1) | (2) |
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| men | women |
| model |
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| height23 | -3.989*** | -5.897*** |
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| (6.11) | (8.11) |
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| _cons | 8.331*** | 12.59*** |
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| (7.20) | (10.67) |
| sigma |
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| _cons | 3.408*** | 3.732*** |
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| (84.24) | (96.88) |
| N | 6191 | 6211 |
Absolute t statistics in parentheses
* p ** p *** p
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