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Beauty pays but does investment in beauty? : despite the large returns from an attractive appearance, the cost-effectiveness of investment in beauty is ambiguous

Lee, Soohyung - 2015

Being beautiful gives a person an advantage in many settings. Attractive people earn more and have an easier time getting hired. People spend large amounts of money on goods and services to enhance their beauty. Is this enhancement worth pursuing? Research suggests that the expected improvement...

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Experimental Evidence of Taste-Based Discrimination Against Overweight Workers

Pham-Kanter, Genevieve - 2015

employees and to make promotion recommendations. I find that there is discrimination against overweight workers when bonuses are … for being overweight. If bonuses are a measure of employee taste-based discrimination, these results suggest that some of … the weight penalty seen in observational studies is the result of employee taste-based discrimination …

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The relative earnings of young Mexican, Black, and White women

Antecol, Heather; Bedard, Kelly - 1999

Using the NLSY, we find that young Mexican women earn 9% less than young White women while young Black women earn 15% less than young White women. Although young Mexican women earn less than young White women, they do surprisingly well compared to young Black women. We show that it is crucially...

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