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Attractive professors get better evaluations
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:45:29 -0400
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:50:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Dear Professor Farber, Here is an interesting story in yesterday's NYT. If you post this to IP, please don't attribute it to me :)) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/28/business/28SCEN.html ECONOMIC SCENE The Hunk Differential By HAL R. VARIAN BEING beautiful pays off. Economists have found that men with above-average looks are paid about 5 percent more than those with average appearance, while those who are below average in looks have wages 9 percent below the mean. But is this because of discrimination or productivity? ... Recently Mr. Hamermesh, a labor economist at the University of Texas at Austin who has long studied beauty and labor markets, wrote a paper with an undergraduate economics major, Amy Parker, that investigates the effect of beauty on a particular measure of performance: teaching evaluations for college professors. The economists collected teaching evaluations for 463 courses taught by 94 faculty members at the University of Texas at Austin, along with some characteristics of the instructors, like sex, race, whether they were on tenure track, and whether they were educated in an English-speaking country. ...
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