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Dan Hamermesh Answers Your Questions About Beauty Pays
This week we solicited your questions for Dan Hamermesh, a regular Freakonomics contributor, and author of the new book Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. A lot of you chimed in...
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What's the Median Income for a Fashion Model in the U.S.?
(iStockphoto) Take a wild guess: How much do you think fashion models make? It’s one of those professions that unless you know someone, or work in the biz, there’s not a lot of information out there to...
View ArticleHamermesh on The Daily Show: Ugly People
Freakonomics contributor Dan Hamermesh was featured on The Daily Show last night, in a piece about ugly people. Hamermesh has done extensive research on the economic disadvantages of being...
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The Sharapova Effect
(Photo: Tim Wang) A recent paper (full PDF here) by Young Hoon Lee and Seung Chan Ahn makes a clever point about occupations in which people are paid for a main activity and a secondary area where...
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We’ve blogged before about the influence that beauty can have on earnings and career choices. But what about the shape of a face? A new paper in the British Journal of Psychology looks at the faces of...
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Charity and the Beauty Effect
(Photo: John Martinez Pavliga) John List and Uri Gneezy have appeared on our blog many times. This guest post is part a series adapted from their new book The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the...
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Department of Obvious? Restaurants seat good-looking patrons at the best tables. (HT: Cyril Morong) Tel Aviv University discovers a bacteria-killing protein that could replace antibiotics. The Gates...
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On Beauty and Biking
(Photo: Paul Wilkinson) Our recent podcast “Reasons to Not Be Ugly” examined the beauty premium, as well as the “downside of ugly.” A new paper by evolutionary biologist Erik Postma in Biology Letters...
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Old-Fashioned Matchmaking as an Antidote to Modern Dating Dilemmas
We recently put out four Freakonomics Radio episodes that developed an arc of a theme: “Reasons to Not Be Ugly,” “What You Don’t Know About Online Dating,” “Why Marry? (Part 1)” and “Why Marry? (Part...
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The Ravages of Time
My twenty-five year college reunion is right around the corner. In advance of the event, my classmates were asked to write a short summary of their post college life. Next to each write-up was the...
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