advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one 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 it's 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 ugly man running for president of prime minister so i wonder if people are as obsessed about the loops as they used to be when they you were writing your book that's very hard to say there's been very little studies where they have been 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 2000 and they found remarkably similar relationships between beauty and outcomes such as earnings in these 2 periods so while

of texas author of beauty pace why attractive people are more successful professor 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 think areas from the book great writers like i'm talking chair or scholar 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 about 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 in a 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 shouldn't exist any more than any other kind of discrimination but as you pointed out before the very ways to compensate for you know perhaps not the most attractive

advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one well to discuss that i'm now joined by danielle hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of texas and also her off beauty pace why attractive people are more successful precious 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 ugly man running for president of prime minister so i wonder if people as obsessed about the looks as they used to be when the you were writing your book that's really hard to say there's been very little studies where they have been the exactly the same thing let's say in the eighty's and right now one study for australia did exactly the same. spare men the mid eighty's and 2009 and they found remarkably similar relationships between beauty and outcomes such as earnings in these 2 periods so while

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