The Looks of a Winner : Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of photos of 1,929 Finnish political candidates. Evaluations of beauty explain success in real elections better than evaluations of competence, intelligence, likability, or trustworthiness. The beauty premium is larger for female candidates, in contrast to findings in previous labor-market studies

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Year of publication:	[2006]
Authors:	Poutvaara, Panu
Other Persons:	Berggren, Niclas (contributor) ; Jordahl, Henrik (contributor)
Publisher:	[2006]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Geschlecht \| Gender \| Politiker \| Politicians \| Ästhetik \| Aesthetics \| Finnland \| Finland \| Wahlverhalten \| Voting behaviour

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (27 p)
Series:	IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 2311
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 2006 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.933639 [DOI]
Classification:	D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legistures, and Voting Behavior ; J45 - Public Sector Labor Markets ; J7 - Discrimination
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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