Changing looks and changing "discrimination"
Subtitle: the beauty of economists
By: Daniel S. Hamermesh.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11712; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11712.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: American Economic Association -- Elections.; Beauty, Personal -- Economic aspects.
Description: "I estimate the effects of changing an ascriptive characteristic on a market outcome while keeping the average amount of information unchanged.  Taking advantage of candidates' multiple appearances in elections to office in a professional association and of the presence of different photographs accompanying the ballots, I show that exogenous increases in beauty raise a candidate's chance of success.  The results support the inference that differential outcomes are inherent in agents' responses to an ascriptive characteristic and do not stem from correlations with unobserved differences in productivity-enhancing characteristics"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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