Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marriage. Show all posts
Thursday, October 3, 2024

A bride- price auction: “the most expensive bride in South Sudan”

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  The Guardian has the story of a bride-price auction for a child bride in South Sudan: A teenage bride wed for a record price: the ‘marriag...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Becoming a matchmaker

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  The company built around the marriage pact is now offering matchmaking tools to the public: Matchbox . "Matchbox is the matching al...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

New York is about to end its legal ban on adultery

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A 1907 New York state law criminalizing adultery (as a misdemeanor) looks likely to be repealed. New York adulterers could get tossed out of...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Education (and age) versus fertility in the U.S. marriage market

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  Markets change over time, including the marriage market.  American marriages have become more assortative in recent years, and it appears ...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

Will divorce become legal in the Philippines?

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  The NYT has the story: ‘Just Like Medicine’: A New Push for Divorce in a Nation Where It’s Illegal.   A campaign in the Philippines that f...
Sunday, July 2, 2023

Who marries whom?

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  The Washington Post "Department of Data" presents some census data on who marries whom. What does your job say about whom you’ll...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Is an End to Child Marriage within Reach? Not yet... Unicef report, and Lancet summary

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  Unicef has issued the following report focused on the continued prevalence of child marriage, particularly in the poorest communities: Is ...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Michigan Senate seeks to repeal 1931 ban on unmarried cohabitation

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 Michigan now has a more liberal senate than in 1931.  The Guardian has the story, about how even fossil repugnance dies hard: Michigan Repu...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Dating and (or versus) the search for lasting relationships

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 Two related  stories caught my eye this week. One lamented the difficulty of making a meaningful match through online dating, and thought a...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Jobs and spouses in Denmark

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  Matching is both consequential and difficult : it is how we sort into jobs and careers, and marriages and families.  Here's a paper th...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Drought, hunger, and early marriage in Ethiopia

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 Sometimes the problem is hunger, and early marriage is seen as the solution. The Guardian has the story Ethiopian drought leading to ‘drama...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Afghanistan’s trade in organs--and children

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 Here's the story in the WSJ: ‘No Father Wants to Sell His Son’s Kidney.’ Afghans Pushed to Desperate Measures to Survive. Afghanistan’s...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Assortative mating plus efficient wealth management in Norway, by Fagereng, Guiso & Pistaferri

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  Here's a recent NBER working paper that sheds some further light on how assortative mating leads to divergence in family wealth. (Appa...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

College as a Marriage Market, by Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven, Magne Mogstad

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Here's a recent working paper about college and marriage in Norway: College as a Marriage Market, by Lars Kirkebøen, Edwin Leuven, Magn...
Monday, December 20, 2021

Better LAT than never: Living Apart Together for older romantic relations

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 Marriage is not the only way that people can romantically partner, and of course young people are the pioneers in many new forms of househo...
Monday, September 6, 2021

Contested forms of marriage: child marriage (and signaling), bride exchange (watta satta), and capture (ala kachuu in Kyrgyz, zij poj niam in Hmong)

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  Recent changes in child marriage laws in some U.S. states have reminded me that it is just one of many forms of contested marriage around ...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Lawsuits to overturn bans on repugnant transactions: kidney sales and incest

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  What to do if a transaction you would like to engage in is banned?  You could sue to overturn the ban.  Here are two recent news stories, ...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Interfaith marriage under attack in India--"love jihad"

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 The Washington Post has the story: It was never easy being an interfaith couple in India. Now some states are making it harder " Marry...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Bernard Cohen (1934-2020), who convinced the Supreme Court that bans on inter-racial marriage were unconstitutional

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  Flags flew at half staff in Virginia last month, marking the death of Bernard Cohen, and also marking how much has changed in Virginia and...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Child marriage in Somalia

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 The Guardian has the story: 'A race against time': the new law putting Somalia's children at risk of marriage :  Child marriage...