One of the more interesting findings is that beauty matters just as much for men as for women, at least when it comes to labor market outcomes.
The economics of beauty? Well, that sort of economics definitely interests me more than stories about unemployment rates and tax cuts. (Yes, yes, I know they are important [though often depressing] topics.) Since I’m married to an economist I feel I can say that sometimes economics can be a bit boring… In any case, it’s rare when our household experiences an overlapping academic interest, so I was particularly eager to read labor economist Daniel Hamermesh’s latest, Beauty Pays(Princeton University Press, 2011).
The book has certainly been getting a lot of press. (The fact it was featured in both The Economist and People, and that I read both features during my weekly reading, sums up my high- and low-brow periodical reading preferences.) Beauty Pays has been reviewed and summarized in Timeand The Huffington Postas well, and you may have seen the New York Times Op-Ed Hamermesh wrote…
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