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

Table 3 Descriptive statistics and conditional logit estimates, AEA elections, N=312 (dependent variable is “elected”) ^a

^aThe conditional logits include as controls a quadratic in the candidate’s lifetime citations up through the year before the election, and indicators for gender, whether the person had previously held a high-level government position, was in a Top 5 economics department, was not an academic, was African-American or had won a Nobel Prize.