Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - In: Journal of Public Economics 94 (2010) 1-2, pp. 8-15
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3708 were Finnish). As Finland has a proportional electoral...