Arbeitspapier
The looks of a winner: beauty, gender, and electoral success
We study the role of beauty in politics using candidate photos that figured prominently in electoral campaigns. Our investigation is based on visual assessments of 1,929 Finnish political candidates from 10,011 respondents (of which 3,708 were Finnish). An increase in beauty by one standard deviation is associated with an increase of 1720 percent in the number of votes for the average non-incumbent candidate. The relationship is virtually always statistically significant for female candidates, and in most specifications also for male candidates.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2002
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Public Sector Labor Markets
- Subject
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Ästhetik
Geschlecht
Politiker
Wahlverhalten
Finnland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Berggren, Niclas
Jordahl, Henrik
Poutvaara, Panu
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Berggren, Niclas
- Jordahl, Henrik
- Poutvaara, Panu
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2007
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