Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching

Adrian Mehic

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 219, issue C

Abstract: This paper examines the role of student facial attractiveness on academic outcomes under various forms of instruction, using data from engineering students in Sweden. When education is in-person, attractive students receive higher grades in non-quantitative subjects, in which teachers tend to interact more with students compared to quantitative courses. This finding holds both for males and females. When instruction moved online during the COVID-19 pandemic, the grades of attractive female students deteriorated in non-quantitative subjects. However, the beauty premium persisted for males, suggesting that discrimination is a salient factor in explaining the grade beauty premium for females only.

Keywords: Attractiveness; Beauty; COVID-19; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D91 I23 J16 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110782

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