Changing looks and changing "discrimination": The beauty of economists

Economics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 405-412

  Hamermesh, Daniel S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beauty; Discrimination; Microeconometrics; Professional associations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751164440     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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