TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bóo, Florencia López
AU  - Rossi, Martín A.
AU  - Urzua, Sergio
        TI  - The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment
        PY  - 2012/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6356
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6356
        AB  - We provide new evidence on the link between beauty and hiring practices in the labor market. Specifically, we study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after submitting a resume. Our empirical strategy is based on an experimental approach. We sent fictitious resumes with pictures of attractive and unattractive faces to real job openings in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We find that attractive people receive 36 percent more responses (callbacks) than unattractive people. Given the experimental design, this difference can be attributed to the exogenous manipulation of facial attractiveness of our fake job applicants.
        KW  - callback rates
KW  - labor market discrimination
KW  - facial attractiveness
        ER  -