id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ybvmapar5fbunf6sncdsddcgd4 Sonia Oreffice Beauty, body size and wages: Evidence from a unique data set 2016 30 .pdf application/pdf 7202 775 65 We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview in the German General Social Survey is related to weight, height, and body mass index (BMI), The salience of physical attributes to economic behavior is well-established in the social sciences, where research consistently reports that beauty or anthropometric measures We use nationally representative German data where the respondents provide information on their anthropometric attributes (height and weight) and the interviewers assess their We then investigate how beauty and anthropometric measures (height, weight or BMI) We estimate regressions of attractiveness rated at the start of the interview on anthropometric measures and Most studies actually measure attractiveness from facial photographs, rated by undergraduate students or other individuals (Biddle and Hamermesh, 1998; Deryugina and We use the German General Social Survey of 2008 and 2012 to examine how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), or ./cache/work_ybvmapar5fbunf6sncdsddcgd4.pdf ./txt/work_ybvmapar5fbunf6sncdsddcgd4.txt