Beauty: Beauty and Wages

Description Usage Format Source References See Also

Description

observations of 165 individuals

number of observations : 825

country : argentina

economic topic : labor economics

econometrics topic : fixed effects model

Usage

1

Format

A dataframe containing :

employer

employer index

worker

worker index

beauty

beauty score

treatment

a factor with levels 'B' (baseline), 'V' (visual), 'O' (oral), 'VO' (visual and oral), 'FTF' (face to face)

setwage

a factor with levels 'yes' or 'no' indicating whether the employer set the wage of the worker

practice

the time used to solve the preliminary maze

estimated

worker's estimation of the number of mazes he'll solve during the 15 minutes 'employement' period

actual

worker's actual number of mazes solved during the 15 minutes 'employement' period

wage

the wage set by the employer

univ

the university of the worker, one of 'nac' (Universidad National de Tucuman), 'stho' (Universidad del Norte Santo Tomas de Aquino), 'tecno' (Universidad Tecnologica Nacional)

faculty

actual major for the workers, one of 'other', 'science', 'computers', 'humanities' and 'arts'

age

the age of the worker

sex

the gender of the worker

teamsport

is the worker participate in team sports ?

internet

has the worker an internet connection at home ?

prevjobs

number of previous jobs

jobeduc

employment in education

jobit

employment in information technology

jobretail

employment in retail sales

jobbiz

employment in business

jobgov

employment in public sector

jobart

employment in art

jobfood

employment in food production and service

jobind

employment in industry

jobinter

intensity of interpersonal interactions required in each job on a 0 to 5 scale

hobbyit

hobbies in computers

hobbyrec

hobbies in recreation

hobbycrea

hobbies in arts

hobbysport

hobbies in sports

Source

American Economic Review data archive : http://aeaweb.org/aer/.

References

Mobius, Markus M. and Tanya S. Rosenblat (2006) “Why beauty matters”, the American Economic Review, 96(1), 222-235.

See Also

Index.Economics, Index.Econometrics


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