waiting for Mr Rich

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[The CEPR's webiste <http://www.cepr.org> is down, otherwise I'd 
>give the URL for the original paper.]
>
>Financial Times - June 3, 2002
>
>THE AMERICAS & INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY: Women in US waiting longer for Mr Rich
>By David Turner, Economics Staff, in London
>
>Women are responding to the increasing disparity in male earnings by 
>delaying marriage while they seek a wealthy husband, according to a 
>research paper* looking at the US marriage market.
>
>But this intensely practical approach towards wedded bliss is also a 
>high-risk strategy, since it is leaving more women unmarried.
>
>The paper, written by Eric Gould and Marco Daniele Paserman of the 
>Hebrew University of Jerusalem, suggests that the greater the 
>inequality of male wages in their city, the longer white US women 
>spend searching for a husband.

Gee, don't they have more obviously pressing issues to analyze in 
_Jerusalem_ than the US marriage rate???
-- 
Yoshie

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