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, 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 …
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"We investigate the role of physical appearance, in addition to race and sex, in the rate of discrimination observed in the labour market of Lima. Our experimental design allows us to disentangle the effect of each of those three variables on the callback rates received by our fictitious job...
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characteristics that are discriminated against. It uses the examples of beauty and height to examine whether: 1) Absolute or relative …
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the historical/cultural heritage (Fusco Girard and Nijkamp, 1997) in the evaluation of the beauty of new urban design … beauty that characterises some new architectural assets, integrating tangibles and intangibles aspects, helps in …
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nucleus of Aesthetics: Beauty-Ugly. If a history of Beauty may resort to a long series of theoretical proofs (of which one can … representations of certain things or beings perceived somehow as "ugly". But if from a point of view one is Beauty and subsequently in … artists have proposed definitions of Beauty; thanks to their testimonies can thus reconstruct a history of aesthetic ideas …
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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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beauty increases the likelihood of entering into a polygynous relationship. A woman in a polygynous relationship produces …
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We propose a method to estimate the capitalized value of the architectural design quality of a neighbourhood. Our economic design premium is identified by spatially differentiating property prices and design quality within neighbourhoods and comparing the differences across neighbourhoods. We...
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beauty increases the likelihood of entering into a polygynous relationship. A woman in a polygynous relationship produces …
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Florida R., Mellander C. and Stolarick K. Beautiful places: the role of perceived aesthetic beauty in community … the effects of beauty and aesthetics on community satisfaction. The paper conducts these estimations by ordinary least …-squares, ordered logit, and multinomial logit. The findings confirm that beauty is significantly associated with community satisfaction …
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