An assessment of the mating motive explanation of the beauty premium in market-based settings

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40 (2017)
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Abstract

Labor market and real-life studies were not designed to discriminate between evolutionary and taste-based and stereotype explanations for the beauty premium, have too many confounding effects, and lack crucial information. Smaller-stake and experimental studies provide more compelling evidence in favor of mating motives and suggest the direction of future research for the economists' field studies.

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