3 interesting findings: 1. Married moms are less happy when their husbands are at home than when their husbands are employed full time. When women lose their jobs, there’s no effect on the risk of divorce. When men lose their jobs, their risk of divorce goes up 33%.
2. In terms of speaking fees, social scientists benefit from being more attractive, whereas unattractiveness is a comparative advantage for natural scientists. This appears to be driven by the belief that unattractive natural scientists engage in higher quality work.
3. Based on weak scientific evidence, many marijuana advocates claimed that legal cannabis would lead people to use fewer opioids. Recent reviews, though, suggest that marijuana legalization is more likely to increase than reduce opioid-death rates.
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@robkhenderson Married moms are less happy when their financial security is at risk. A married mom whose husband is worth millions and millions and is home with her raising their kids together is happy. A married mom whose husband is home and they can't afford groceries is not.
@robkhenderson In Japan, retired husbands are lovingly called "oversized garbage."
@robkhenderson This account is becoming something I look forward to sharing with my wife. Nearly every post. Keep crushing it, @robkhenderson
@robkhenderson Fucking bitches
@robkhenderson @BobLonsberry It’s no revelation that it’s mostly about the money..
@robkhenderson Surely this has more to do with general financial strain? In the average family, the husband's salary is higher, so him losing his job places greater financial strain.
@robkhenderson Women exchange sex to men in exchange for resources.
@robkhenderson What if a man works from home?
@robkhenderson Yeah, it's probably better for the relationship that men take the next best job instead of "holding out" for the best paying one.
@robkhenderson Does this also apply when husbands retire? Im wondering how much of this is the loss of status/income vs just being stuck together at home a lot more than they were used to.
@robkhenderson RTO is literally saving marriages. Boomer Managers have been vindicated.
@robkhenderson @robinhanson no surprise, job = status. if employer doesn't value your man, that's a huge external signal if your man can't provide resources, that's an existential threat, deeply embedded in female response response to job loss is also critical. if man isn't hustling, he's not providing
@robkhenderson Bad for thinking jobs
@robkhenderson Thanks to the 1964 CRA, it makes more sense to layoff the man over the woman from a legal, risk adjusted return perspective, & people are confused by why this country is going down the tubes.
@robkhenderson Would be interesting to see this statistic in different countries.