Left-handers make more money than right-handers.
Left-handed men with at least some college education earned 15 percent more than similarly educated right-handers, while those who finished college earned about 26 percent more, wrote Christopher S. Ruebeck of Lafayette College, and Joseph Harrington and Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University in a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
There are “several suggestive and economically and statistically significant results that suggest further support for the notion that handedness matters,” they wrote. “We do not have a theory that reconciles all of these findings.”
The researchers did not find a similar effect among women.
The working paper is here.
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Sigh. There just ain’t enough selective injustice in my left-handed female world.
Damn. I guess my current and prospective employers just haven’t read that paper yet!