“…An additional body of work further speaks to the question of whether such human and social capital differences indeed explain the attractiveness advantage. These studies come mostly from economics research and generally use large survey datasets (Berri, Simmons, Van Gilder, & O'Neil, 2011;Converse, Thackray, Piccone, Sudduth, Tocci, & Miloslavic, 2016;Hamermesh & Biddle, 1994;Judge, Hurst, & Simon, 2009;Kanazawa & Still, 2017) or experimentally recreated labor markets (Graham, Harvey, & Puri, 2016;Mobius & Rosenblat, 2006) to understand potential supply-side causes of the attractiveness advantage. Research in this domain has used two general strategies to argue that the attractiveness gap in earnings is at least partly unrelated to the value of the worker to the employer, and thus represents unmeritocratic taste-based discrimination.…”