Population Research Institute Social Science Research Institute Penn State

Ugly Criminals

Posted February 20th, 2006 by Lisa Broniszewski in Add Health, Crime, Law, and Justice

From NBER, a working paper using data from three waves of Add Health, find that being very attractive reduces a young adult’s (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs.

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