Experience has shown that those who are attractive get the first-class treatment in this life. This does not happen all the time but most if the time. Attractive people are more likely to be offered job interviews. More likely to be hired if interviewed and more likely to be promoted once they are hired than the less attractive people.
Elsewhere, they are more likely to receive loans and at lower interest rates. Discrimination based on the effects of lookism. Further, attractive economists are more likely to study at leading graduate schools. The papers of these attractive economists are cited more often than papers of their less attractive peers. Another research found out that when less attractive criminals committed a crime, their fines were approximately four times as large as those of attractive criminals.
An unattractive person misses out on nearly USD $ 250,000 in earnings over their lifetimes. In overall, these biases have a vast effect. In a study published in 2004, it was found that many people get discriminated against because of their looks and not their ethnicity.
An article by Lee, Monk and Esposito published on the American Journal of Sociology reveals that the earnings gap between attractive and unattractive people exceeds or rivals the gap between the black and white adults. The attractiveness parameter is said to be more punishing for black women. Those who are attractive, are seeing a boost in their earnings.
