The Give and Take on Restaurant Tipping
| dc.contributor.author | Parrett, Matthew Barton | en |
| dc.contributor.committeecochair | Stegeman, Mark | en |
| dc.contributor.committeecochair | Eckel, Catherine C. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Haller, Hans H. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | McGuirk, Anya M. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Spanos, Aris | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Economics | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-22T18:46:39Z | en |
| dc.date.adate | 2003-10-24 | en |
| dc.date.available | 2011-08-22T18:46:39Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2003-09-17 | en |
| dc.date.rdate | 2003-10-24 | en |
| dc.date.sdate | 2003-10-17 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines aspects of both the consumer (the "give") and the server (the "take") sides of restaurant tipping. On the consumer side, I address both why, and how much, people tip in restaurants. I also examine a policy issue related to the recent Supreme Court decision in United States v. Fior d'Italia. These issues are addressed via a combination of theoretical, empirical, and experimental analysis. On the server side, I use survey data collected from several restaurants to address the issue of labor market discrimination based on beauty. Specifically, do more attractive servers earn higher tips than less attractive servers? I argue that a tipping data set offers several advantages over data sets used in previous studies of the beauty wage gap. This dissertation was funded by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Enhancement Grant (NSF #427347). | en |
| dc.description.degree | Ph. D. | en |
| dc.format.medium | ETD | en |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-10172003-021146 | en |
| dc.identifier.sourceurl | http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10172003-021146 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11049 | en |
| dc.publisher | Virginia Tech | en |
| dc.relation.haspart | ETDDissertation.pdf | en |
| dc.rights | In Copyright | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | wage gap | en |
| dc.subject | beauty | en |
| dc.subject | attractiveness | en |
| dc.subject | social norms | en |
| dc.subject | tipping | en |
| dc.title | The Give and Take on Restaurant Tipping | en |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Economics | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | en |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D. | en |
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