{"id":10206,"date":"2006-08-11T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T20:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/11\/i-guess-thats-why-they-pay-me-the-big-bucks.html"},"modified":"2006-08-11T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T20:20:59","slug":"i_guess_thats_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/i_guess_thats_w.html","title":{"rendered":"I guess that’s why they pay me the big bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Left-handers make more money than right-handers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

The researchers did not find a similar effect among women.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The working paper is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(via Avo)<\/p>\n

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