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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275876
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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959650
municipal and parliamentary elections and that they have a larger beauty premium in municipal, but not in parliamentary …, elections. As municipal candidates are relatively unknown, the beauty-premium gap indicates that voters especially those to the … right use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections. …
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Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to...
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trait, beauty, to infer the extent to which parents' physical characteristics transmit inequality across generations … child's looks. A large data set of U.S. siblings shows a correlation of their beauty consistent with the same expression of … from the literatures describing the impact of beauty on earnings and the intergenerational elasticity of income suggests …
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of this twist can be attributed to employers' age-dependent requests for (female) beauty and (male) leadership, the …
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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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