“…More broadly, our study contributes to the literature investigating the extent to which beauty pays. The role of beauty has been examined, for example, for labor market outcomes (e.g., Hamermesh and Biddle, 1994;Ruffle and Shtudiner, 2015;Deryugina and Shurchkov, 2015b;Stinebrickner et al, 2019;Shtudiner and Klein, 2020), educational and cognitive developments (e.g., Deryugina and Shurchkov, 2015a;Hamermesh et al, 2023), sports (e.g., Bakkenbüll and Kiefer, 2015;Chan et al, 2022;Pieper and Schulze, 2023) and even elections in the American Economic Association (Hamermesh, 2006).…”