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 17–20 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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2002

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Public Sector Labor Markets
Thema
Ästhetik
Geschlecht
Politiker
Wahlverhalten
Finnland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Berggren, Niclas
Jordahl, Henrik
Poutvaara, Panu
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2007

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Berggren, Niclas
  • Jordahl, Henrik
  • Poutvaara, Panu
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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