welcome back to old apartment daniel hamermesh emeritus professor off a canonic said the university of texas author of beauty pays why attractive people are more successful but has a hamermesh i heard you say in one interview that beauty for the most part is a silly distinction and that goes not only against my feelings but also against a lot of thinkers from the book to great writers like i'm talking checkoff or scare wild who all believe beauty especially in older ages is is a reflection of harmony across the various demands of a person's live do you think they were as silly as well. no i don't at all i think those things are bad she much more important than the things i'm talking about what i'm bothered about in terms of differences and beauty is that i have observed and have measured the whole different bamber of contacts that in fact people who are bad looking do worse economically and that seems to be wrong morally it also seems to be wrong in terms of the gains for those doing this criminal nation is a feeling that they shouldn't exist any more than any other kind of discriminat

advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one well to discuss that i'm now joined by daniel hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor and so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now it's been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and there's been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants are not as popular as they used to be. some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating against ugly man running for president of prime minister so i wonder if people are as obsessed about the looks as they used to be when the you were writing your book it's really hard to say there's been very little studies where they have through the exactly the same thing let's say in the eighty's and right. now one study for australia did exactly the same experiment in the mid eighty's and 2009 and they found remarkably similar relationships between beauty and outcomes such as earnings in these 2 period

fishel want to discuss that i'm now joined by danielle hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor and so good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you for having me now it's been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and there's been quite a lot of changes in this past decade beauty pageants not as popular as they used to be. some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating against man running for president of prime minister so i wonder if people as obsessed about the looks.