Is there really a beauty premium or an ugliness penalty on earnings?

Citation

Kanazawa, Satoshi & Still, Mary C. (2018). Is there really a beauty premium or an ugliness penalty on earnings?. Journal of Business and Psychology. vol. 33 (2) pp. 249-262

Abstract

Economists have widely documented the “beauty premium” and “ugliness penalty” on earnings. Explanations based on employer and client discrimination would predict a monotonic association between physical attractiveness and earnings; explanations based on occupational self-selection would explain the beauty premium as a function of workers’ occupations; and explanations based on individual differences would predict that the beauty premium would disappear once appropriate individual differences are controlled. In this paper, we empirically tested the three competing hypotheses about the “beauty premium”.

URL

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-017-9489-6

Reference Type

Journal Article

Journal Title

Journal of Business and Psychology

Author(s)

Kanazawa, Satoshi
Still, Mary C.

Year Published

2018

Volume Number

33

Issue Number

2

Pages

249-262

Edition

Feburary 16, 2017

ISSN/ISBN

1573-353X

DOI

10.1007/s10869-017-9489-6

Reference ID

8388