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Record W7113904961 · doi:10.1111/caje.70027

Physical attractiveness, drug taking and gender differences

2025· article· en· W7113904961 on OpenAlexvenueno aff

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEvolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersKey Programme
KeywordsPhysical attractivenessAttractivenessHuman capitalPhysical activityGender gapSignificant differenceHuman factors and ergonomics

Abstract

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Abstract This study investigates the relationship between adolescent physical attractiveness and drug‐taking behaviour, emphasizing the human capital and “pretty girl” effects on the decision to use drugs. Through the human capital effect, physically attractive adolescents are better positioned to accumulate human capital at a young age compared to their less attractive peers. Building on the economics and psychology literature, we propose a “pretty girl” effect by suggesting that physically attractive young women or girls are more likely to be approached by men or mature boys who may have access to drugs, and they are thus more likely to take drugs. These two effects imply a gender difference in the impact of adolescent physical attractiveness on drug‐taking behaviours. We find a robust gender difference in the effect of adolescent physical attractiveness on both the likelihood of having ever taken drugs and the types of drugs ever taken.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.188
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.081 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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