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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 28.
Published in final edited form as: Rev Econ Stat. 2015 Mar 2;97(1):14–28. doi: 10.1162/REST_a_00435

Table 7.

Attractiveness and Personality

Variables (1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
Extroversion Agreeableness Conscientiousness Neuroticism Openness
Beauty (standardized) 0.413***
(0.110)		 0.153
(0.094)		 0.161*
(0.087)		 −0.276***
(0.099)		 0.181*
(0.094)
IQ score (SD) −0.453***
(0.113)		 −0.483***
(0.096)		 −0.401***
(0.089)		 −0.163
(0.102)		 0.736***
(0.097)
Father’s education 0.115***
(0.042)		 −0.047
(0.036)		 0.015
(0.033)		 −0.052
(0.038)		 0.072**
(0.036)
Mother’s education 0.003
(0.047)		 −0.008
(0.040)		 −0.048
(0.037)		 −0.078*
(0.042)		 0.069*
(0.040)
Father executive 0.682*
(0.382)		 −0.264
(0.328)		 −0.126
(0.302)		 0.360
(0.348)		 0.606*
(0.329)
Family income ’57 −0.078
(0.186)		 0.126
(0.159)		 −0.120
(0.147)		 −0.054
(0.169)		 0.116
(0.159)
Farm background −0.050
(0.308)		 0.061
(0.263)		 −0.188
(0.243)		 −0.208
(0.276)		 −0.428
(0.263)
Medium hometown population −0.637**
(0.311)		 −0.325
(0.266)		 −0.418*
(0.245)		 0.284
(0.281)		 −0.193
(0.267)
Large hometown population −0.533
(0.419)		 0.222
(0.357)		 0.252
(0.327)		 −0.207
(0.376)		 −0.168
(0.355)
Number of siblings −0.037
(0.046)		 0.035
(0.040)		 0.015
(0.037)		 −0.095**
(0.043)		 0.032
(0.040)
Lived with both parents 0.265
(0.443)		 −0.120
(0.379)		 0.344
(0.352)		 −0.257
(0.402)		 −0.332
(0.382)
Mother employed 0.498**
(0.235)		 −0.311
(0.201)		 −0.019
(0.185)		 −0.060
(0.212)		 0.161
(0.201)
High school class size 0.001
(0.001)		 −0.001
(0.001)		 0.001
(0.001)		 −0.001
(0.001)		 0.001
(0.001)
Constant 21.545***
(0.956)		 28.011***
(0.818)		 29.893***
(0.755)		 17.597***
(0.865)		 19.912***
(0.819)
Observations 2,290 2,326 2,317 2,327 2,281
R2 0.024 0.022 0.017 0.012 0.061

Reported numbers are OLS coefficients (standard errors in parentheses). Significant at *10%, **5%, ***1%. Dependent variables are summary scores. Sample exclusions are the same as in table 1.