[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, director of policy studies and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring timothy carneys new book and discussion about the findings and claims and i think you will find the remarks in the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in historically right now so i look forward to the discussion. Hes going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray known to everybody here and then Megan Mcardie known as Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei an and is also the commentay editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while. His previous books are what many of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and that is where he carved out a name for himse himself. Its a deep dive and its
Watch after words with Jonathan Karl, sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversation [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, the director of domestic policy studies here and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carneys new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think youll find both tims remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. So i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come up and offer a few words and then he will be followed we will follow that with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray who is known to probably everybody here, ais own fa chair and Cultural Studies here at aei. And megan mccardle, a Washington Post columnist with a lot to say as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examine
Professor of economics at the university of texas and also her off 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 its been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and theres 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 its very hard to say theres been very little studies where they have through the exactly the same thing lets say in the eightys and right now one study for australia did exactly the same experiment in the mid eightys and 2. 1000 and they found remarkably similar relationships between beauty and outcomes such as earnings in these 2 periods so while we
Is pretty clear that beauty is an advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one well to discuss that im 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 its been almost a decade since you published these groundbreaking book and theres 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 its really hard to say theres been very little studies where they have through the exactly the same thing lets say in the eightys and right. Now one study for australia did exactly the same experiment i
Procedure could be life saving reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r. T. The promotion of weekly aeronauts he will be back again with more for you at the top of the hour. Believing weird things by the way is called superstition or magical thinking believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system its a feature that comes equipped in the software of our program mean to try to connect things in the environment just in case theres a real connection. Or. The welcome to alter part of itself and sad that beauty is in the eye of the behold there but hundreds of studies across decades show that most beholders view beauty in pretty similar ways and thats leaps into all facets of a persons life from the way a kid is treated in school to hes or her success in the labor or marriage markets is pretty clear that beauty is an advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one well to discuss that im now joined by Daniel Hamermesh emeritus professor of economics at the university of te