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 …

attractive. However, much about the mechanism behind this “beauty premium” remains unknown. We use a rich dataset to shed light … test scores, more attractive students receive marginally better grades in some cases. Finally, there is substantial beauty …

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

beauty is an asset for political candidates in intra-party competition and more so for candidates on the right in low …

, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we construct beauty measures in a number of different ways. Beauty raises … happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.08 standard deviations of additional satisfaction … be affected by beauty, the gross effects are roughly halved, with small reductions arising from the impact of beauty on …

characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative …

beauty increases the likelihood of entering into a polygynous relationship. A woman in a polygynous relationship produces …