Bortnikova, Kseniya; Havranek, Tomas; Irsova, Zuzana - 2024
Common wisdom suggests that beauty helps in the labor market. We show that two factors combine to explain away the mean … beauty premium reported in the literature. First, correcting for publication bias reduces the premium by at least a third … underscored by the similarity of the beauty effect on earnings and productivity. The second factor implies a positive link …