A real connection. Or. The welcome to the party itself and sad that beauty is in the eye of the beholder but hundreds of studies across decades showed 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 2 hes a very sick sassy into labor or marriage markets its pretty clear that beauty is an advantage but is it really an unfair or superficial one 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 precious its 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 not as popular as they used to be. Some voters in some western countries are no longer discriminating against a man running for
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 on 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. Did exactly the same experiment in the mid eightys and 2009 and they found remarkably similar relationships between be
Hard to say theres been very little studies where they have 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 2000 and they found remarkably similar relationships between beauty and outcomes such as earnings in these 2 periods so while we think things have gotten a little bit better i really doubt thats changed very much over my life. Now you describe beauty as a scarce resource but ogden this canyon is very too i mean you point out in your book that most people are somewhere around the average somewhere around the middle one thats make a beauty by is this phenomenon of discriminating or privilege people based on their looks. Fairly infrequent because if we are all around the average who is discriminating against whom. Well not everybody is average i mean typical things like for example in the u. S. When these studies are done perhaps one 3rd of the people are rated as above average of whom a
Good evening. Im tony clark from the Carter Library. Cant tell you how excited i am to see you all for the audience, watching this. It has rained all day long, and it is raining very hard right now. And to see you all turn out tonight, i think is a tribute to ingrid and her organization and the book. So thank you all very much. I appreciate it. If you have not been to our Author Program before, i would encourage you to good on to the judgmenty Carter Library website. We have two to three authors, sometimes four, every week, and they are just fascinating. Later this week we have a book called wilmingtons lie about the rise of white nationalists and wilmington, North Carolina, back in the 1880s. We have judge douglas ginsburg, talk us about his book, voices of the republic, a tiein with a pbs series on thursday. We have a whole bunch of wonderful authors so i encourage you to take a look there and come back see is again. Im delighted for tonights program. Inning grids newkirk was born in
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 its 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 as of sas 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 in the mid eightys and 2009 and they found remarkably similar relationships betwe