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Table 1 Charitable donations, field experiment, probit and tobit estimates, N = 1754 a

From: Tall or taller, pretty or prettier: is discrimination absolute or relative?

 

Contribute?

 

Contributed Amount

 

Beauty:

    

Absolute:

    

 Male Beauty

-0.0263

 

-0.6005

 
 

(0.042)

 

(0.936)

 

 Female Beauty

0.1353

 

2.6563

 
 

(0.034)

 

(0.789)

 

Rank:

    

 Male Beauty/100

 

-0.0739

 

-1.6554

  

(0.076)

 

(1.838)

 Female Beauty/100

 

0.2748

 

5.3858

  

(0.070)

 

(1.599)

 Pseudo-R2

0.0765

0.0760

0.0227

0.0225

  1. aThe data are from Landry et al. ([2006]). All equations include as controls a vector of attidudinal variables, indicators of the arm of the experiment and indicators for whether the solicitor was overweight or obese. Standard errors in parentheses below the parameter estimates are clustered on solicitor identification numbers.