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Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching

Mehic, Adrian LU (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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Studenters skönhet och betyg under campus- och distansundervisning
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Contribution to journal
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keywords
Attractiveness, Beauty, COVID-19, Discrimination, D91, I23, J16, Z13
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Economics Letters
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219
article number
110782
publisher
Elsevier
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  • scopus:85135997800
ISSN
0165-1765
DOI
10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110782
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English
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