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O Youth and Beauty : Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019
family income, parents' education, race/ethnicity and gender, being better-looking raised subsequent changes in measurements … both data sets show that a substantial part of the economic returns to beauty result indirectly from its effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480356
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Ugly Criminals
Mocan, Naci - 2006
incentive for unattractive individuals toward criminal activity. Second, the level of beauty in high school has an effect on … criminal propensity 7-8 years later, which seems to be due to the impact of the level of beauty in high school on human capital … drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result is not because beauty is acting as a proxy for socio-economic status …
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Beauty, Job Tasks, and Wages : A New Conclusion about Employer Taste-Based Discrimination
Stinebrickner, Todd R. - 2018
We use novel data from the Berea Panel Study to reexamine the labor market mechanisms generating the beauty wage … premium. We find that the beauty premium varies widely across jobs with different task requirements. Specifically, in jobs … enhancing attribute--those that require substantial amounts of interpersonal interaction--a large beauty premium exists. In …
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The Economics of Aesthetics and Three Centuries of Art Price Records
Goetzmann, William - 2014
Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation--both in the time series and in the cross- section. We argue that, to increase our understanding of the market for aesthetics, it is helpful to take a micro perspective on the formation of art prices, and acknowledge that each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458227
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Gender Pay Gap across Cultures
Burns, Natasha; Minnick, Kristina; Netter, Jeffry M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We employ a cross-country sample to examine whether cultural differences help explain gender compensation variations across corporate executives. The results show that the cultural differences, which are embedded in societies from long prior to the compensation decisions, provide significant...
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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence
Knowles, John - 1999
African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990
Collins, William J. - 1999
also use the IPUMS to study trends in race differences in the incidence of mortgages, and in the value of owner …
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Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men : 1910-1990
Fairlie, Robert W. - 1999
We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to declining rates within industries, but was...
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Why are Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps Larger for Men than for Women? Exploring the Role of Segregation
Bayard, Kimberly - 1999
-establishment cells. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine segregation by race and ethnicity at the level of …
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Splitting Blacks? : Affirmative Action and Earnings Inequality within and Across Races
Leonard, Jonathan S. - 1984
Critics have said that affirmative action is at best ineffective and at worst counterproductive. In particular, it has been argued that if affirmative action helps anybody, it helps only the highly educated cream of the minority population, and may perversely work to the detriment of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477767