Beauty in the Classroom: Professors' Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity - Daniel Hamermesh

Multiple Choice Question of the Week

Labor economist Daniel Hamermesh finds that a professor's looks and dress have a large effect on student ratings. Deans use student ratings of professors to determine salaries and promotions. Once the Hamermesh findings become known to faculty we can expect

a. the opportunity cost of nice clothes to decline

b. faculty to dress better because people to respond to incentives

c. an increase in income to result in an increase in the purchase of better clothes because clothes are a normal good

d. all of the above