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Darwin Might Have Said As Much: Beauties Make Money On Their Looks

  • USA Today, Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:30 AM
A study of a series of five large surveys done between 1971 and 2009 in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and Britain show beautiful people are happier in general than the hoi polloi. University of Texas-Austin economists who sifted through the data report that the economic benefit resulting directly from one's pulchritude accounts for at least half of one's happiness. The researchers say beauty helps income because good-looking people make more money and marry people who are also better looking and higher earning.

"The majority of beauty's effect on happiness works through its impact on economic outcomes," said Daniel Hamermesh, lead researcher who has studied the socio-economic effects of attractiveness for years.

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