The Influence of Physical Attractiveness and Gender on Ultimatum Game Decisions

Solnick, Sara J.; Schweitzer, Maurice E.

doi:10.1006/obhd.1999.2843

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“…Other options are, for example, that women selfselect themselves into certain occupations (e.g. Macpherson and Hirsch, 1995) and women cannot negotiate their salary as well as men do (e.g., Solnick and Schweitzer, 1999). …”

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The job satisfaction gender gap among young recent university graduates: Evidence from Catalonia

Mora

Ferrer-i-Carbonell

2009

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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2The job satisfaction gender gap among young recent university graduates:Evidence from Catalonia AbstractThe present paper focuses on the gender differences in job satisfaction reported by recent university graduates in Catalonia (Spain). The data allows to distinguish five areas of job satisfaction: work content, promotion possibilities, earnings, applicability of acquired knowledge, and job security. The empirical analysis shows that there is a gender gap in job satisfaction and that this can be (largely) attributed to the worse employment conditions women face. This is surprising given the nature of the sample, i.e. very young and highly educated. The paper concludes that while young women's expectations have risen, their labor market achievements have not improved at the same pace. The data set consists of more than 3,000 individuals who graduated in [1997][1998] and were interviewed in 2000.

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The job satisfaction gender gap among young recent university graduates: Evidence from Catalonia

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Ferrer-i-Carbonell

2009

The Journal of Socio-Economics

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“…On the other hand, researchers have found that attractive subjects get higher offers and therefore outperform their less attractive counterparts in simple bargaining games even without face-to-face interactions, such as the ultimatum game (Solnick and Schweitzer, 1999). Thus, employers in our experiment may expect more attractive workers to perform better in our bargaining task, and therefore incorporate these expectations in their wage offers.…”

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“…The intersection of gender and the beauty premium has been a topic of several non-labor market studies (Solnick and Schweitzer, 1999;Rosenblat, 2008). We build upon this literature to find no systematic evidence that female or male workers benefit disproportionally from attractiveness.…”

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When are Appearances Deceiving? The Nature of the Beauty Premium

Deryugina

Shurchkov

2013

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“…These findings suggest that people behave more generously or cooperatively towards physically attractive people. Solnick and Schweitzer (1999) show that attractive responders receive significantly higher offers than unattractive responders in the ultimatum game. In dictator games, Rosenblat (2008) shows that allocators treat physically and vocally attractive recipients more generously.…”

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Facing a Dilemma: Cooperative Behavior and Beauty

Darai

Grätz

2012

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract This paper investigates the influence of physical attractiveness on cooperative behavior. We survey data from 211 episodes of a television game show and combine it with independent facial attractiveness ratings of the show's contestants. The final of the show represents a simultaneous one-shot modified prisoner's dilemma. Our results show that facially attractive contestants provoke cooperative behavior from their counterparts, but attractive contestants themselves do not behave differently from unattractive ones. This preferential treatment or "beauty premium" rewards attractive contestants with substantially higher monetary gains of up to £2 153. This finding applies to both sexes. But, the attractiveness effect is limited to mixed-gender interactions. Contestants are only more cooperative when facing an attractive fellow player of the opposite sex. Attractiveness also has no effect in group-decisions made by the contestants prior to the prisoner's dilemma. Therefore people seem to show a preference to cooperate with someone towards whom they are personally attracted; and this preference reaches full effect when people lack other information on which to base their decision. Terms of use: Documents in

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The Influence of Physical Attractiveness and Gender on Ultimatum Game Decisions

Cited by 291 publications

References 37 publications

The job satisfaction gender gap among young recent university graduates: Evidence from Catalonia

The job satisfaction gender gap among young recent university graduates: Evidence from Catalonia

When are Appearances Deceiving? The Nature of the Beauty Premium

Facing a Dilemma: Cooperative Behavior and Beauty

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