Dataset from Hamermesh, D. S., & Parker, A. (2005), "Beauty in the classroom: Instructors’ pulchritude and putative pedagogical productivity", Economics of Education Review, 24(4), 369–376.
data(Beauty)A data frame with the following variables:
The professor’s identification number.
Average professor evaluation score, ranging from 1 (very unsatisfactory) to 5 (excellent).
Rank of professor: teaching, tenure track, or tenured.
Ethnicity of professor: not minority or minority.
Gender of professor: female or male.
Language of the school where the professor received education: English or non-English.
Age of the professor.
Percentage of students in the class who completed the evaluation.
Number of students in the class who completed the evaluation.
Total number of students enrolled in the class.
Class level: lower or upper.
Number of professors teaching sections of the course in the sample: single or multiple.
Number of credits of the class: one credit (e.g. lab, PE) or multi credit.
Beauty rating of professor from lower-level female students (1 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Beauty rating of professor from upper-level female students (1 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Beauty rating of professor from second upper-level female students (1 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Beauty rating of professor from lower-level male students (1 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Beauty rating of professor from upper-level male students (1 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Beauty rating of professor from second upper-level male students (1 = lowest, 10 = highest).
Average beauty rating of the professor.
Outfit of professor in picture: not formal or formal.
Color of professor’s picture: color or black and white.
The dataset examines the relationship between instructors' physical attractiveness and student evaluation scores, controlling for demographic and class characteristics.