Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful

by Daniel S. Hamermesh

Book Overview

How beauty leads to better jobs, better wages, and better spouses Most of us know there is a payoff to looking good, and in the quest for beauty we spend countless hours and billions of dollars on personal grooming, cosmetics, and plastic surgery. But how much better off are the better looking? Based on the evidence, quite a lot. The first book to seriously measure the advantages of beauty, Beauty Pays demonstrates how society favors the beautiful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691140464
• ISBN13: 9780691140469
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"