Do Attractive People Make More Money?

Economic research has long suggested that there is a “beauty premium” — or, conversely, an “ugliness penalty” — on wages. But do beautiful people really earn more money than their less attractive counterparts? According to the researchers, many attractive people do tend to make more money but not for the reasons we think they do. In other words, it’s not quite so simple.
Researchers Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics and Political Science