Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender When Hiring: A Field Experiment in Spain
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- Goulão, Catarina & Lacomba, Juan Antonio & Lagos, Francisco & Rooth, Dan-Olof, 2024. "Weight, attractiveness, and gender when hiring: A field experiment in Spain," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 218(C), pages 132-145.
- Catarina Goulão & Juan A. & Francisco Lagos & Dan-Olof Rooth, 2023. "Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender when Hiring. A Field Experiment in Spain," ThE Papers 23/03, Department of Economic Theory and Economic History of the University of Granada..
- Catarina Goulão & Juan Antonio Lacomba Abellán & Francisco Lagos & Dan-Olof Rooth, 2024. "Weight, attractiveness, and gender when hiring: A field experiment in Spain," Post-Print hal-04403050, HAL.
- Goulão, Catarina & Lacomba, Juan Antonio & Lagos, Francisco & Rooth, Dan-Olof, 2023. "Weight, Attractiveness, and Gender when Hiring: a Field Experiment in Spain," TSE Working Papers 23-1438, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
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Keywords
obesity; overweight; gender; attractiveness; hiring; correspondence testing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2023-06-19 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2023-06-19 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2023-06-19 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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