Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching
(2022) In Economics Letters 219.- Abstract
- This paper examines the role of student facial attractiveness on academic outcomes under various forms of instruction, using data from engineering students in Sweden. When education is in-person, attractive students receive higher grades in non-quantitative subjects, in which teachers tend to interact more with students compared to quantitative courses. This finding holds both for males and females. When instruction moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic, the grades of attractive female students deteriorated in non-quantitative subjects. However, the beauty premium persisted for males, suggesting that discrimination is a salient factor in explaining the grade beauty premium for females only.
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- author
- Mehic, Adrian LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Studenters skönhet och betyg under campus- och distansundervisning
- publishing date
- 2022-08-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Attractiveness, Beauty, COVID-19, Discrimination, D91, I23, J16, Z13
- in
- Economics Letters
- volume
- 219
- article number
- 110782
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85135997800
- ISSN
- 0165-1765
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110782
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 505c3b73-1ebc-47d0-b17e-1cf53e614d81
- date added to LUP
- 2022-08-10 12:17:21
- date last changed
- 2022-09-06 15:15:12
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