Applied ethics and economics exercises for today:
Does prohibiting blonde jokes in the workplace increase or decrease inequality among women as measured in utility units?
Has anyone estimated the relevant earnings equation? Is there an earnings premium for blondes? Even conditional on general attractiveness? Does it vary a lot by occupation?
What do we know about the relative sales of different shades of hair coloring? Is there a revealed preference argument to be made regarding the relative utilities associated with being a blonde versus being a brunette?
I offer this topic up to aspiring honors students looking for a thesis topic or as a chapter idea for Freakonomics III.
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