BEAUTY PAYS Why Attractive People Are More Successful

BEAUTY PAYS Why Attractive People Are More Successful, Daniel S. Hamermesh

BEAUTY PAYS points out that human beauty is scarce and as such affects outcomes in various markets, including for jobs, spouses and loans. It discusses massive amounts of evidence on the impacts of beauty in these markets examines whether the better treatment of beautiful people arises because they are more productive, or because of discrimination; and it discusses the merits of offering legal protections to bad-looking people.