Beauty vs. brains: Early labor market outcomes of high school graduates

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-325

  Fletcher, Jason M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beauty; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350394846     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.09.006     Document Type: Article

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