My favorite.
Study shows different.
http://asr.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/05/29/0003122414536391
to quote her:
There is a positive within-individual correlation of physical attractiveness and socioeconomic statusindividuals advantaged on one dimension tend to be advantaged on the other. Given this, matching on attractiveness and status creates a between-partner cross-trait correlation between her beauty and his status (and vice versa), even in the absence of beauty-status exchange. This correlation might be misconstrued as beauty-status exchange in miss-specified models, including the models used in prior analyses.
Admittedly, some prior studies claiming evidence of gendered beauty-status exchange examine earlier cohorts in which women had greater incentive to use beauty as a means of social mobility. Still, even these early studies show an association between womens socioeconomic status and their physical attractiveness and between womens and mens socioeconomic status (Elder 1969; Taylor and Glenn 1976; Udry 1977). Moreover, the absence of robust evidence for exchange in the current analysis cannot be entirely attributed to womens new economic independence: the argument that
women trade beauty for money out of economic necessity implies that modern women might use their labor market success to secure physically attractive men with poor labor market prospects (e.g., Press 2004), but this occurs infrequently, if at all.
