Obesity, Attractiveness, and Differential Treatment in Hiring: A Field Experiment

By Dan-Olof Rooth. 2009

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Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Height and Earnings: The Role of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills (2014, background): “However, including BMI in the earnings equation has no impact on the height premium, see Lundborg, Nystedt, and Rooth (2009).”
Developing the Research Basis for Controlling Bias in Hiring (2012, background): “(Make the Road, 2010), and overweight persons (Rooth, 2009).”
Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country (2014, background): “Rooth (2009) finds a negative differential treatment in”
Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market (2012, unknown): “…Han, Norton, and Stearns, 2009), while height has a positive e¤ect on hourly wages, perhaps re ecting the fact that taller people are more likely to have reached their full cognitive potential (Case and Paxson, 2008) and/or may possess superior physical capacities (Lundborg, Nystedt, Rooth, 2009).”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “Rather than being an explanatory variable, prior knowledge has the effect of perpetuating the vicious cycle of discrimination described in Section 2.3.”
The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2012, background): “The experiment 5 Rooth (2009) finds strong indications of discrimination against obese workers by measuring employer callbacks for fictitious job applications to real jobs, where pictures of an obese or non-obese person were randomly assigned to similar applications.”
Discrimination Against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves (2016, background): “Exceptions are correspondence tests that measured the effect of physical attractiveness on employment chances (e.g. López Bóo et al. 2013, Rooth 2009, Ruffle and Shtudiner 2015).”
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: homosexuality and physical appearance (2015, unknown): “[93] Rooth, D.”
Hiring Discrimination: An Overview of (Almost) All Correspondence Experiments Since 2005 (2017, background): “Obesity Sweden Agerström & Rooth (2011) and Rooth (2009) - D.6.”
LinkedIn and Facebook in Belgium (2010, background): “Selection procedures have yet been widely researched, both from a normative (Braddy, Thompson, Wuensch, & Grossnickle, 2003; Van Hoye & Lievens, 2007; Wanberg, Kanfer, & Banas, 2000) and from a descriptive point of view (Dubois & Pansu, 2004; Rooth, 2009).”