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Chung, Andy; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Singleton, Carl; … - 2024

We investigate the relationship between physical attractiveness and the time people devote to video/computer gaming. Average American teenagers spend 2.6% of their waking hours gaming, while for adults this figure is 2.7%. Using the American Add Health Study, we show that adults who are...

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Evaluating the effect of beauty on labor market outcomes : a review of the literature

Liu, Xing Michelle; Sierminska, Eva - 2014

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...

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Attractiveness, anthropometry or both? : their relationship and role in economic research

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2014

We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a nationally representative sample. We are the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all...

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"O youth and beauty" : children's looks and children's cognitive development

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Gordon, Rachel A.; Crosnoe, Robert - 2019

both data sets show that a substantial part of the economic returns to beauty result indirectly from its effects on …

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The looks of a winner : beauty, gender and electoral success

Berggren, Niclas (contributor); Jordahl, Henrik (contributor) - 2006

"We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate … 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 …

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Beautiful Serbia

Bonin, Holger (contributor); Rinne, Ulf (contributor) - 2006

The paper studies the causal impact of participation in an active labor market program - the 'Beautiful Serbia' program providing training and temporary work in the construction sector in Serbia and Montenegro - on measures of subjective well-being approximating individual welfare. According to...

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Ugly criminals

Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006

drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result is not because beauty is acting as a proxy for socio-economic status …. Being very attractive is also positively associated adult vocabulary test scores, which suggests the possibility that beauty … beauty, high school beauty (pre-labor market beauty) has a separate impact on crime, and that high school beauty is …

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Age and gender profiling in the Chinese and Mexican labor markets : evidence from four job boards

Helleseter, Miguel Delgado; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, … - 2016

of this twist can be attributed to employers' age-dependent requests for (female) beauty and (male) leadership, the …

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"As rare as a panda" : how facial attractiveness, gender, and occupation affect interview callbacks at Chinese firms

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Lei, Lei - 2014

This study explores how both gender and facial attractiveness affect job candidates' chances of obtaining interviews in China's dynamic Internet job board labor market. It examines how discrimination based on these attributes varies over occupation, location, and firms' ownership type and size....

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Beauty, underage drinking, and adolescent risky behaviours

Green, Colin; Wilson, Luke B.; Zhang, Anwen - 2022

Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. This paper estimates the effect of attractiveness on engagement in risky behaviours in...

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