• Beauty or Brains? What Is More Important For Partner Selection?

  • Feb 1 2022
  • Length: 31 mins
  • Podcast

Beauty or Brains? What Is More Important For Partner Selection?

  • Summary

  • It's undeniable that intelligence is attractive, but the question still remains whether it is attractive enough to outweigh physical beauty. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the importance of physical attractiveness and what role it plays against other commonly praised traits such as intelligence and more importantly, how this affects men and women asymmetrically.

    • Egebark, J., Ekström, M., Plug, E., & van Praag, M. (2021). Brains or beauty? Causal evidence on the returns to education and attractiveness in the online dating market. Journal of Public Economics, 196, 104372.
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