Height Matters NFL quarterback Tom Brady is 6′4″ and his wife, supermodel Gisele Bunchen, is 5′10″. Research shows that tall people earn $789 more per inch per year. The graph shows the average hourly wage of adult White men in the United States classified by height (Mankiw & Weinzierl, 2010).

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