Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51972 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5664
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to mean linear and non-linear effects on earnings, simultaneous quantile regressions are applied to analyze heterogeneity across the wage distribution.
Subjects: 
attractiveness
beauty
employment
wages
JEL: 
J31
J71
J10
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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