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

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2007

We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our … Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of 17–20 percent in the number of …

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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and their Voters Reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2010

municipal and parliamentary elections and also have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary, elections …

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Distinctively Different: A New Approach to Valuing Architectural Amenities

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Holman, Nancy - CESifo - 2015

We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our economic design premium is identified by spatially differentiating property prices and design quality within neighbourhoods and comparing the differences across neighbourhoods. We...

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