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Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight and encouragement you need,

live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

My name is Joshua Sheets, and today on the show show I want to dig into one of those extremely

esoteric personal finance topics that interests me enormously and I hope that you also will find it interesting. What topic is that you say? It's

the topic of how to grow tall or put more accurately as to most of what I'm going to discuss, how to help your children

to grow tall. What does this have to do with personal finance you ask? Well, we've been aware for quite a while that there's

pretty good documentation that indicates that tall people, most especially tall men,

tend to earn more money over their careers. This has been

documented in various countries and in various sectors. How much? Well, I've seen evidence that claims that it's either a little bit below or a little bit above about 2% of an increase in earnings for each inch of height. A man is an inch of height.

man is an inch taller, you can increase his earnings by something like around 2%.

That's pretty significant.

It adds up over time. I would say also that that's not the only thing and I think that generally tall men have an easier time gaining leadership positions, gaining promotions,

is often talked about as the height premium.

Taller individuals are more likely

to be CEOs of companies and hold other high-level positions.

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