Beauty and Accounting Academic Career
研究了美国顶尖商学院会计教授的外貌对学术职业成功的影响，发现更漂亮的教授在博士毕业后获得更好的初始职位，且晋升终身教职更快，但这一效应在从副教授晋升为正教授时消失。
We examine the impact of beauty on the academic career success of tenure-track accounting professors at top business schools in America and show that beauty plays a significant role. Specifically, after controlling for gender, ethnicity, publication history, work experience, and quality of alma mater, more attractive professors obtain better first school placements post-PhD and are granted tenure in a shorter period of time. These findings are broadly consistent with behavioral theory which predicts that facial attractiveness irrationally affects the perception of performance characteristics. Interestingly, there is no incremental benefit of attractiveness for the career progression from associate to full professor. This finding is consistent with the notion that the role played by beauty in promotion diminishes when the individual’s ability and competency become apparent over time.