Does Beauty Matter in Undergraduate Education?

Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2332265

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“…Most studies actually measure attractiveness from facial photographs, rated by undergraduate students or other individuals (Biddle and Hamermesh, 1998;Deryugina and Shurchkov, 2015;Hitsch, Hortaçsu and Ariely, 2010;Mobius and Rosenblat, 2006;Scholz and Sicinski, 2015). For instance, Biddle and Hamermesh (1998) consider matriculation photographs of law school students, Deryugina and Shurchkov (2015) retrieve those from student ID cards in a women's college, while Scholz and Sicinski (2015) use senior year high school yearbook photographs for male high-school graduates from Wisconsin.…”

Section: Facial Attractiveness Versus Full-body Attractivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, Biddle and Hamermesh (1998) consider matriculation photographs of law school students, Deryugina and Shurchkov (2015) retrieve those from student ID cards in a women's college, while Scholz and Sicinski (2015) use senior year high school yearbook photographs for male high-school graduates from Wisconsin. Hitsch, Hortaçsu and Ariely (2010) estimate mate preferences and sorting patterns from an online dating service in the US, using profile photographs uploaded by users and rated by students, with photographs available only for 27.5% of the sample (a self-rated attractiveness measure is also used).…”

Section: Facial Attractiveness Versus Full-body Attractivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set

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Quintana‐Domeque

2016

Economics & Human Biology

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We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview in the German General Social Survey is related to weight, height, and body mass index (BMI), separately by gender and accounting for interviewers' characteristics or fixed effects. We show that height, weight, and BMI all strongly contribute to male and female attractiveness when attractiveness is rated by opposite-sex interviewers, and that anthropometric characteristics are irrelevant to male interviewers when assessing male attractiveness. We also estimate whether, controlling for beauty, body size measures are related to hourly wages. We find that anthropometric attributes play a significant role in wage regressions in addition to attractiveness, showing that body size cannot be dismissed as a simple component of beauty. Our findings are robust to controlling for health status and accounting for selection into working. JEL Classification Codes: J01, J10. Keywords: Attractiveness, Body Mass Index, Height, Weight, Wages. * Quintana-Domeque (corresponding author): University of Oxford, Department of Economics, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, United Kingdom; climent.quintana-domeque@economics.ox.ac.uk. We thank Damian Clarke, Tel Enyecu, Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, David Margolis, Daniele Paserman, Simon Quinn, Curtis Simon, one anonymous referee and seminar participants at Alacant, IFS, Oxford, PSE and TSE for useful comments. The usual disclaimers apply.

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Section: Facial Attractiveness Versus Full-body Attractivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Facial Attractiveness Versus Full-body Attractivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set

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Quintana‐Domeque

2016

Economics & Human Biology

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“…Von Bose (2012) [76] and [14] both show that physical attractive is positively correlated with high school GPA and university overall GPA. Others have shown that beauty and ability are complements at high levels of beauty, but substitutes at low levels (Fletcher 2009) [21].…”

Section: Beauty Correlated With Cognitive/ Non-cognitive Skillmentioning

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Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature.

Liu

Sierminska

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…For example, the consumer culture encourages people to view the skin, particularly the women's skin, as something that always needs constant processing in order to be protected against the passage of time, in such a way that the skin can maintain its gender difference in the form of the softness of feeling [16]. The body acts as an intermediate between consumption and personal identity, and has become the main arena for exposing the differences [5,16].…”

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“…The body acts as an intermediate between consumption and personal identity, and has become the main arena for exposing the differences [5,16].…”

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Sociological study of the factors affecting body management (focusing on cosmetic surgeries in the city of Ahvaz, Iran)

Karamallah¹,

Ghanavati²,

Ghaderpour³

et al. 2018

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Background: At the present age, the appearance of body practices has been extensively highlighted. The body has been taken into consideration not only from the biological perspective, but also as a social and psychological product. The necessity of paying attention to the related explanatory factors has made this behavior an important and critical issue, which is a part of the appearance management behaviors. Therefore, this study was conducted aiming at determining the factors related to body management, with a focus on cosmetic surgeries. Materials and methods: This research was fulfilled as a cross sectional-descriptive survey in 2016. In this work, 172 individuals, who visited the cosmetic institutes and centers in the city of Ahvaz for cosmetic surgeries, were selected through random cluster sampling. Then, the data were collected through both questionnaires and interviews. Finally, the statistical tests, including Pearson, Spearman, and multivariate regression, were employed to analyze the obtained data. Findings: It was comprehended that women do cosmetic surgeries more than men, and singles pay attention to their body appearance management more than the married ones. Moreover, unemployed housewives proceed to manipulate their body and appearance more than the employed women. Rhinoplasty (plastic surgery performed on the nose) had the highest demand and was the top rank. The next ranks belonged to cheek and lip prosthesis. It is worth stating liposuction and tightening the skin had their own advocates. While women and younger people were more inclined to rhinoplasty, cheek and lip prosthesis, men were more attracted to liposuction. In addition, old people were more interested in tightening the skin.

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Does Beauty Matter in Undergraduate Education?

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set

Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set

Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature.

Sociological study of the factors affecting body management (focusing on cosmetic surgeries in the city of Ahvaz, Iran)

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