on its nature at the college level. We find that students judged to be more attractive perform significantly worse on … test scores, more attractive students receive marginally better grades in some cases. Finally, there is substantial beauty …

variation in Miss America and Miss USA beauty pageant winners. We show that there was more front-page newspaper coverage and … more pageant-related internet search behavior following a home-state win. Teen girls and pageant-aged women with home …-state winners were more likely to report that they were trying to lose weight, and pregnant women gained less gestational weight. We …

Sexual violence has long been a problem on college campuses, yet federal policies to protect students have largely been … the implications of these investigations on college enrollment, particularly for women. We combine institution-level panel … data on enrollment by age and gender, with information on Title IX investigations to study changes in women's college …