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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 female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373407
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003523481
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Ugly criminals
Mocan, Naci (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301665
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413793
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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
We use data from the 11 waves of the U.S. Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development 1991-2005, following children from ages 6 months through 15 years. Observers rated videos of them, obtaining measures of looks at each age. Given their family income, parents' education, race/ethnicity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127187
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The relative returns to education, experience, and attractiveness for young workers
Beam, Emily A.; Hyman, Joshua; Theoharides, Caroline - 2017
Understanding employer preferences for characteristics of young workers is crucial to designing effective policies to reduce youth unemployment in developing countries. We conduct a randomized resume audit study, simultaneously examining the returns to education, experience, and physical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607623
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Slow traffic, fast food : the effects of time lost on food store choice
Bencsik, Panka; Lusher, Lester; Taylor, Rebecca - 2023
Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249135
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Does LEED certification save energy? : evidence from federal buildings
Clay, Karen; Severnini, Edson R.; Sun, Xiaochen - 2021
In the absence of first-best climate policy, energy efficiency has figured prominently among strategies to reduce carbon emissions. One of the most sought-after green certification in the building sector is the internationally recognized Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491664
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Chain restaurant calorie posting laws, obesity, and consumer welfare
Courtemanche, Charles; Frisvold, David E.; … - 2020
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) introduced a mandate requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus and menu boards. This paper investigates whether and why calorie posting laws work. To do so, we develop a model of calories consumed that highlights two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194955
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Food insecurity and insufficiency at low levels of food expenditures
Gundersen, Craig (contributor); Ribar, David C. (contributor) - 2005
This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and … insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … examines the general relationships between these variables and finds that reports of food hardships are positively associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002805355