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The Give and Take on Restaurant Tipping

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dc.contributor.authorParrett, Matthew Bartonen
dc.contributor.committeecochairStegeman, Marken
dc.contributor.committeecochairEckel, Catherine C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHaller, Hans H.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMcGuirk, Anya M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberSpanos, Arisen
dc.contributor.departmentEconomicsen
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-22T18:46:39Zen
dc.date.adate2003-10-24en
dc.date.available2011-08-22T18:46:39Zen
dc.date.issued2003-09-17en
dc.date.rdate2003-10-24en
dc.date.sdate2003-10-17en
dc.description.abstractThis 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.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.otheretd-10172003-021146en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10172003-021146en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/11049en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartETDDissertation.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectwage gapen
dc.subjectbeautyen
dc.subjectattractivenessen
dc.subjectsocial normsen
dc.subjecttippingen
dc.titleThe Give and Take on Restaurant Tippingen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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