The importance of talking to your children @GreenCatherine @jacindaardern @Maori_party
06 May 2016 Leave a comment
The science of attraction
03 May 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: dating market
I thought men was supposed to be superficial, but maybe the increase is not statistically significant
21 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage Tags: dating markets, marriage and divorce, search and matching
1992 Camille Paglia trashes Gloria Steinem wing of feminism
10 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, gender, labour economics, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, television Tags: feminism
Median Income for Married Couples with Both Spouses Working
23 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, labour economics Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, middle class stagnation, pessimism bias, wage stagnation
Source: Mark Perry.
The rising marriage premium for power couples
19 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, economics of marriage, labour economics, population economics, poverty and inequality
Source: Four Forces Watch | askblog.
Effective marginal tax rates on single and dual earner families in the USA, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand
05 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, fiscal policy, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, Denmark, effective marginal tax rates, family tax benefits, family tax credits, France, Germany, in-work tax credits, Italy, poverty traps, rational irrationality, social insurance, Sweden, taxation and labour supply
Some countries including New Zealand and Australia do not give ordinary families much of an incentive to earn more. Effective marginal tax rates on low income families is one of the few times that the Left discovers supply-side economics.
Source: Taxing Wages 2015 – OECD 2015.
Implicit tax on returning to work for a 2nd earner in ordinary US, Danish, British, New Zealand, Australian, Canadian, German and French families
26 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply
Not a lot of point for a 2nd earner in an ordinary family going back to work in the English-speaking countries once you consider the childcare fees for a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old. These calculations were released today in Paris in the OECD’s Going for Growth 2016.
Source: Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth – OECD (2016).
@robinhanson The Changing Way Americans Meet Their Partners @Ednever @paul1kirby
21 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage
Here is the original data on how straight and gay couples meet. The BBC incorrectly coded their replotting of data to mix family with college.
Source: Michael J. Rosenfeld, Dept of Sociology.
Creative destruction in same-sex dating
21 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage
Creative destruction in dating markets
16 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of love and marriage, population economics
Source: The graphs that show the search for love has changed – BBC News via @paul1kirby and @petrmisan
Sex differences in the minimum acceptable romantic partner
11 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics
Richard McKenzie wrote a couple of papers over the last 10 years pointing out that the connection between the labour market and the marriage market will entrench the gender wage gap.
Across all cultures, good financial prospects influence female choices of a partner. Because income influences the prospects of men more than it does women in the dating and marriage market in all cultures, men have an extra incentive to work hard and an additional reward to that of women when they invest in human capital, riskier jobs and longer hours.
Seinfeld had a simpler explanation of this: men are shallow, it goes with the territory.
The only way that men will stop investing in better economic prospects as a way of winning better girlfriends and wives, is for women to lower their standards.
The response of less educated women to more and more of the better educated men and women pairing off together was to stop marrying what was left in the dating pool and have children on their own rather than drop their standards.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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