Data for: Beauty is the promise of happiness?

Abstract of associated article: We measure the impact of individuals' looks on life satisfaction and happiness. Using six data sets, from Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we construct beauty measures in a number of different ways. Beauty raises happiness: A one standard-deviation change in beauty generates about 0.08 standard deviations of additional satisfaction/happiness among men, 0.07 among women. The finding is robust to a rare opportunity to measure it using an instrumental variables approach. Accounting for a wide variety of covariates, particularly educational, marital, and labor-market outcomes that might be affected by beauty, the gross effects are roughly halved, with small reductions arising from the impact of beauty on monetary outcomes.关联论文摘要：本研究聚焦个体外貌对生活满意度与幸福感的影响。我们采用来自加拿大、德国、英国及美国的六项数据集，通过多种不同方式构建外貌评价指标。研究结果表明，外貌可提升幸福感：外貌得分每变动1个标准差，男性的满意度/幸福感可提升约0.08个标准差，女性则提升约0.07个标准差。本研究借助罕见的适配场景采用工具变量法（instrumental variables approach）开展稳健性检验，所得结论依然保持稳健。在纳入诸多协变量，尤其是可能受外貌影响的教育、婚姻与劳动力市场结果后，总效应大致减半，其中外貌对经济收入的影响仅带来小幅的效应缩减。