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[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Hamermesh.Daniel_opt.jpg” caption=”Daniel Hamermesh”]If you look good, will you get ahead?

American economist Daniel S. Hamermesh will talk about the relationship between physical appearance and labour market success in a public lecture titled The Economics of Beauty.

Hamermesh, a 2003 Hooker Visiting Professor in Economics, will deliver the lecture on Thursday, March 27, at 3 p.m. in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business building Room 505.

Hamermesh is the Edward Everett Hale Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught at Princeton and Michigan State and has held visiting professorships at universities in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. His research, published in more than 70 papers in scholarly journals, has concentrated on labor demand, time use, social programs and unusual applications of labor economics to suicide, sleep and beauty. A recent research article is titled Dress for Success: Does Primping Pay?

Hamermesh is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, program director at the Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), and past president of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. His books include Labor Demand and The Economics of Work and Pay, a labour economics textbook.

His latest book, published this year, is Economics Is Everywhere, a series of 400 vignettes designed to illustrate the ubiquity of economics in everyday life and how the simple tools in a microeconomics principles class can be used. Hamermesh is widely quoted in newspapers and magazines and has appeared on such television programs as Good Morning, America, and the McNeil-Lehrer Report.

Go to http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Hamermesh/ for more information about Hamermesh.

The lecture is co-sponsored by the McMaster Economics Society.

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[img_inline align="right" src="http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Hamermesh.Daniel_opt.jpg" caption="Daniel Hamermesh"]If you look good, will you get ahead? <p><br />
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American economist Daniel S. Hamermesh will talk about the relationship between physical appearance and labour market success in a public lecture titled The Economics of Beauty. <p><br />
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Hamermesh, a 2003 Hooker Visiting Professor in Economics, will deliver the lecture on Thursday, March 27, at 3 p.m. in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Business building Room 505. <p><br />
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Hamermesh is the Edward Everett Hale Centennial Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin.  He has taught at Princeton and Michigan State and has held visiting professorships at universities in the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia. His research, published in more than 70 papers in scholarly journals, has concentrated on labor demand, time use, social programs and unusual applications of labor economics to suicide, sleep and beauty. A recent research article is titled <i>Dress for Success: Does Primping Pay</i>?<p><br />
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Hamermesh is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, program director at the Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), and past president of the Society of Labor Economists and of the Midwest Economics Association. His books include <i>Labor Demand and The Economics of Work and Pay</i>, a labour economics textbook.<p><br />
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His latest book, published this year, is <i>Economics Is Everywhere</i>, a series of 400 vignettes designed to illustrate the ubiquity of economics in everyday life and how the simple tools in a microeconomics principles class can be used. Hamermesh is widely quoted in newspapers and magazines and has appeared on such television programs as Good Morning, America, and the McNeil-Lehrer Report.<p><br />
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Go to <a href="http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Hamermesh/">http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Hamermesh/</a> for more information about Hamermesh.<p><br />
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The lecture is co-sponsored by the McMaster Economics Society.

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