Having 'Hot Parents' Could Make You Substantially Richer, New Study Finds
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If time is money, well, then so is beauty. And that’s especially the case when it comes to... your parents?
In fact, yes. By having biologically “hot” parents, a new study finds, you’re estimated to earn substantially more money than people with regular 'rents — and far more than those with below-average-looking ones.
Economic research has long linked one’s conventional attractiveness to success in the workplace. (Pretty people are often paid more, get better jobs and get promoted more quickly.) But a working paper published recently by the National Bureau of Economic Research, or NBER, takes that one step further by quantifying exactly how much it pays to be part of a comely clan.
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