Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Abrevaya, Jason - In: European Economic Review 64 (2013) C, pp. 351-368
, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we construct beauty measures in a number of different ways. Beauty raises … happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.08 standard deviations of additional satisfaction … be affected by beauty, the gross effects are roughly halved, with small reductions arising from the impact of beauty on …