The labor market return to an attractive face: Evidence from a field experiment

Florencia López Bóo; Martín A. Rossi; Sergio S. Urzúa

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.10.016

The labor market return to an attractive face: Evidence from a field experiment

Florencia López Bóo, Martín A. Rossi, Sergio S. Urzúa

Applied Psychology

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Abstract

We design a field experiment to study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after submitting a resume. We find that attractive people receive 36% more responses (callbacks) than unattractive people.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	170-172
Number of pages	3
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	118
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.10.016
State	Published - Jan 2013

Keywords

Callback rates
Facial attractiveness
Labor market discrimination

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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