Less than half of women with PhDs in survey keep ‘maiden’ names
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
Marital Name Change Survey first results and open data release.
Over the last three days 3,400 ever-married U.S. residents took my Marital Name Change Survey. I distributed the survey link on this blog, Facebook and Twitter. I don’t know who took it, but based on the education and occupation data a very large share of the respondents were women (88%) with professional degrees (30%) or Phds (27%). It’s not a representative sample, but the results may still be interesting.
Here I’ll give a few topline numbers as of 8:00 this morning, and then link to a public version of the data and materials. These results reflect a little data checking and cleaning and of course are subject to change.
Respondents were asked about their most recent marriage. Half were married in the 2010s, but the sample includes more than 400 married in the 1990s and 200 earlier.
The vast…
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Stephen Williamson on Canada as an anomaly for conventional and Minsky theories of banking instability
27 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
Larry White (?) On the implausibility of the Minsky model of financial instability
26 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
Milton Friedman marshalls arguements against market socialism and workers’ cooperatives
25 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
Alan Manning explains how inserting the language of market power into labour markets doesn’t mean worker exploitation at all
24 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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