Shaker Ahmed, Mikko Ranta, Emilia Vähämaa, Sami Vähämaa
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Facial Attractiveness and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the Banking Industry
This paper examines the effect of facial attractiveness on the compensation of bank Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). Consistent with the so-called beauty premium hypothesis, we document that good looks pay off for bank CEOs. Specifically, by utilizing machine learning to assess the facial appearance of the CEOs of large U.S. banks, we find that CEO facial attractiveness is positively associated with the annual total compensation and pay-performance sensitivity while being largely unrelated to the annual base salary. The total compensation of above-average looking bank CEOs is almost 17 percent higher than the compensation of CEOs with below-average looks after controlling for various CEO-specific and bank-specific attributes that are known to affect executive compensation. Overall, our empirical findings provide strong evidence for the existence of a beauty premium in the executive labor market.
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