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

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 strongl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oreffice, S, Quintana-Domeque, C
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016