Dan Hamermesh Answers Your Questions About Beauty Pays
This week we solicited your questions for Dan Hamermesh, a regular Freakonomics contributor, and author of the new book Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. A lot of...
This week we solicited your questions for Dan Hamermesh, a regular Freakonomics contributor, and author of the new book Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful. A lot of...
Freakonomics contributor Dan Hamermesh was featured on The Daily Show last night, in a piece about ugly people. Hamermesh has done extensive research on the economic disadvantages of being unattractive....
...“ Mr. Fortune ” ] It would certainly seem as if the Montgomery Bus Boycott accomplished its goal. Or did it? DANIEL DIERMEIER: Being able to identify the actual causal...
...2000, and issues relating to baby booms in Taiwan. For this part of the story, we need a demographer. Daniel GOODKIND: I’m Daniel Goodkind. I’m an independent researcher from Arlington,...
...Transgressions?,” by Daniel Effron and Benoît Monin (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, October 2010). “Endorsing Obama licenses favoring Whites,” by Daniel Effron, Jessica Cameron, and Benoît Monin (Journal of Experimental...
Two weeks ago, we solicited your questions for Princeton psychology professor and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, whose new book is called Thinking, Fast and Slow. You responded by asking 45...
...rubble to rock star? Daniel STURM: Germany has a very unusual economic geography. MARIN: Germany is not a shareholder economy, it’s a stakeholder economy. Uwe REINHARDT: In Germany, the unions...
...mind if things break down when I have time to worry about and solve the problem. But that doesn’t happen. So I suggest Hamermesh’s Corollary to Murphy’s Law: “And it...
...Daniel Hamermesh, an economist at the University of Texas and a frequent contributor to this blog. Hamermesh talks to Stephen Dubner about his voluminous research on the topic, including his...