Facial Attractiveness and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from a Cohort Study

Scholz, John Karl; Sicinski, Kamil

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“…Another challenge is associated with the information on basic characteristics of the raters, that is often absent or unexploited in previous work. Indeed, Scholz and Sicinski (2015) state that "high quality data on beauty, augmented with household economic and demographic characteristics, are rare. "…”

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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

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“…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).…”

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“…Research bringing together measures of some anthropometric attributes and attractiveness include Scholz and Sicinski (2015), Hitsch, Hortaçsu and Ariely (2010) and Hamermesh and Biddle (1994). Scholz and Sicinski (2015) control for height in addition to facial at-tractiveness to estimate the effects of beauty on male life-time earnings.…”

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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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“…We scanned the black-and-white senior photographs of the graduates and coded two characteristics, facial attractiveness (Karraker et al 2015, Scholz & Sicinski 2015 and facial mass (Reither et al 2009). In each case, we arranged for a dozen independent codings of each characteristic, using a visually anchored scale, by college students and by participants in an elderhostel at the UW-Madison, a residential educational program for retired individuals.…”

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A Life in Sociology

Hauser

2017

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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There has lately been a slew of movies-biopics-that depict the lives of immensely talented individuals-the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, the cryptographer and computing pioneer Alan Turing, the physicist extraordinaire Stephen Hawking, and the southern-born novelist Thomas Wolfe, among others. As I think about my life and accomplishments, I know full well that they are way out of my league. All the same, I offer the following autobiographical account. FAMILY ORIGINSMy first and most important teachers were Sylvia, Julius, and Michael Hauser. Sylvia, my mother, had high standards, and she constantly feared I would drop out of school and never return. Her fears were justified. I grew to share them, so I stayed in school decade after decade. My mother also encouraged me to read the work of the young Christopher Jencks and Richard Easterlin. She had exceptionally good taste. My father, Julius Hauser, taught me how to look at the world from the outside in, and what and who not to believe. He encouraged me to read the muckrakers-Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair-and from dinner-table conversations, I learned how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) really worked.My older brother, Mike, whose career encompassed both experimental high-energy particle physics and observational astrophysics, taught me that someone was always smarter, tougher, faster, harder-working, and thinner than me, and he set an example of a life in science that few can equal.My memories of childhood are few, fragmentary, and, often, unhappy. I often broke lamps or other items when my family visited the homes of relatives. Bigger kids stole or broke my balsawood gliders. I wore bifocals by the time I was seven. I transitioned from being the skinny kid who always was last picked to play touch football or basketball to the chubby kid who was always last picked. On the bright side, my brother and I built a Christmas tree of tinker toys when our parents refused to buy one, and Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry was a favorite place to visit.Two male role models dominated the family horizon. Dad was an ABD in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago and moved the family from Chicago to Washington, DC, in 1949 because he had no opportunity for advancement in the FDA's Chicago branch office. He became the house expert on regulatory law within the FDA. In that role, he wrote the first draft of the 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which required proof of efficacy and safety, required disclosure of side effects, and concurrently introduced the first legislation mandating informed consent of participants in clinical trials. According to the Harvard political scientist and historian Daniel Carpenter, he was also responsible for the contemporary design of clinical drug trials.Dad's brother was the sociologist, demographer, and social statistician Philip M. Hauser, whose career wandered freely and frequently between federal service and a professorship at the University of Chic...

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Perceived appearance, body shape and adolescent academic achievement: Evidence from Chinese middle school

Xie,

Fan,

2023

British Educational Res J

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Using data from China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), this study aims to investigate the association between perceived appearance, body shape and adolescent academic achievement, elucidate underlying mechanisms, and examine the heterogeneous relationships across different groups. The results suggest that there is an ugliness penalty rather than a beauty premium in Chinese middle school. Overweight and obese students have lower academic achievement than normal weight students. These findings remain robust after replacing the independent variable and dealing with selection bias. Mechanism analysis reveals that teacher preference and non‐cognitive ability are important transmission mechanisms linking perceived appearance with academic achievement. Academic achievement disadvantage in obese students compared with normal weight students is partially transmitted through cognitive ability. Additionally, poor perceived appearance and obesity have a greater negative impact on the academic achievement of disadvantaged groups. These findings better our understanding of perceived appearance and body shape in the formation of educational stratification and provide a scientific basis for equalizing the educational process within schools.

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Facial Attractiveness and Lifetime Earnings: Evidence from a Cohort Study

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

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

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