Beauty and the Sources of Discrimination
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...Belot et al. (2012) disentangle the sources of favoritism to attractive people by analysing data from a TV game show based on the prisoner’s dilemma....
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...In addition to health-related payoffs, healthy teeth may also yield higher wages (Glied and Neidell, 2010) and other benefits associated with beauty (e.g., Mocan and Tekin, 2010; Belot et al., 2012)....
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...A second implication of Bayesian updating from equation (3) is that for given subjective likelihood ratios, the extent of updating is a non-linear function of the prior, and the subject updates more for non-extremal priors, and less for extreme...
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...Columns (1) and (2) are based on the whole sample, columns (3) and (4) are based on the Amsterdam sample only....
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...Table 10 - Subject characteristics, prior and actual predictions All sample Amsterdam sample Dependent variable: Predictions Prior Predictions Prior (1) (2) (3) (4) Female ....
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...πi(s) = μi i(s) μi i(s) + (1− μi) , (3)...
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...Researchers in other fields have found that people routinely make costly decisions based on facial inferences even when those inferences are shown to be uninformative, such as when lending money online (Ravina 2012), eliminating competitors on a television game show (Belot et al. 2012), playing incentivized trust games (Wilson and Eckel 2006), and incentivized public goods games (Andreoni and Petrie 2008)....
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...…those inferences are shown to be uninformative, such as when lending money online (Ravina 2012), eliminating competitors on a television game show (Belot et al. 2012), playing incentivized trust games (Wilson and Eckel 2006), and incentivized public goods games (Andreoni and Petrie 2008).20…...
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