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Beauty and marriage affect job promotions and aging marriages
Dr Albert Wiggam asks if happiness alters employment outcomes for highly able or less able spouses. Examples show unhappily married Smith vs happily married Jones in promotion decisions, plus a Burgess Wallin study noting engaged women who rate as very good looking marry about two years earlier than plain looking women.
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Ernest W. Burgess
University of Chicago
Paul Wallin
Stanford