Beauty and the Sources of Discrimination
基于高赌注电视游戏节目数据，分析外貌歧视：不具吸引力的选手表现和合作性不差，但更易被同伴淘汰，且第三方低估了这种歧视的程度。
We analyze discrimination against less attractive people on a TV game show with high stakes. The game has a rich structure that allows us to disentangle the relationship between attractiveness and the determinants of a player’s earnings. Unattractive players perform no worse than attractive ones, and are equally cooperative in the prisoner’s dilemma stage of the game. Nevertheless, they are substantially more likely to be eliminated by their peers, even though this is costly. We investigate third party perceptions of discrimination by asking subjects to predict elimination decisions. Subjects implicitly assign a role for attractiveness but underestimate its magnitude.