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work_7xjsdkkmsjfy5kfw37saaw3c24	Matt Parrett	Beauty and the feast: Examining the effect of beauty on earnings using restaurant tipping data	2015	13	.pdf	application/pdf	9994	978	65	This paper looks at the effect of beauty on earnings using restaurant tipping data. pays by comparing the tip earnings of attractive and unattractive restaurant servers and then consider taste-based discrimination, stereotypes, and negotiating ability, oral skills, and confidence as potential explanations of why beauty pays.1 Survey rule out simultaneity bias between the server's beauty and the tip amount.2 Server productivity is measured by asking respondents to rate the quality of service they received from their server on a seven-point scale. Hornik (1992) and Lynn and Simons (2000) who, similar to this paper, examine the effect of server beauty on tip earnings. The main driver of this beauty earnings gap appears to be female customers tipping attractive female servers more than unattractive female servers. Next I compare the controlled mean tip earnings of attractive and unattractive male servers across female customers and	./cache/work_7xjsdkkmsjfy5kfw37saaw3c24.pdf	./txt/work_7xjsdkkmsjfy5kfw37saaw3c24.txt