- Attractive CEOs raise their company’s stock price when they first appear on television, according to a working paper by Joseph T. Halford and Hung-Chia Hsu at the University of Wisconsin.
- Taller people are richer. In fact, every inch between 5’7” and 6 feet is “worth” about 2 percent more in average annual earnings.
- Being better looking than at least 67 percent of your peers is worth about $230,000 over your lifetime.
- Having blond hair is worth as much as a year of school—for women.
- Being an obese white woman is particularly punishing for your potential lifetime earnings.
via How Your Face Shapes Your Economic Chances – The Atlantic.
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