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Feb 20 4 tweets 3 min read
1. New from @dcoxpolls: “Close to half (45%) of college-educated single women say their relationship status is largely due to an inability to find someone who meets their expectations.” @FamStudies @AEI ifstudies.org/blog/the-colle…
2. For a majority of single, college-educated women these are dating liabilities:

Being

✔️ Republican
✔️ Not college-educated
✔️ Very religious

Narrows the pool a good bit. Source: @dcoxpolls
3. "College-educated women are far more likely than those without a degree to say a partner’s political views, personal habits, and current financial situation are important considerations." @dcoxpolls @FamStudies ifstudies.org/blog/the-colle…
4. and finally: "Half of college-educated women say that it would be impossible (21%) or very difficult (29%) to date someone who held a contrary opinion on the legality of abortion, vs. one-third of women without a degree." ifstudies.org/blog/the-colle…

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More from @BradWilcoxIFS

Jan 19
1. Been spotlighting👇🏼 *bad news* about Teens & Tech.

But now looks like *good news* coming from Utah.

UT is poised to take lead in treating “Big Tech like Big Tobacco” w/ raft of reform laws designed to help families navigate social media: deseret.com/2023/1/18/2355… @SpencerJCox
2. Utah legislature & @GovCox are responding to research like this report from @jean_twenge et al indicating that Big Tech & social media, in particular, are fueling depression, loneliness, and suicide among teens, esp teen girls: ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/reso…
3. “Of course, just as Big Tobacco had its defenders as debates about tobacco-cancer link first erupted, Big Tech has its defenders today, as well” arguing “correlation does not = causation.” But new studies from Germany, Italy & US suggest it’s causal: deseret.com/2023/1/18/2355…
Read 6 tweets
Jan 18
1. A new analysis by the @AEI Housing Center reveals that one group outperforms all others when it comes to achieving homeownership: married couples. Moreover, this is true for both black and white Americans. ifstudies.org/blog/the-benef…
2. Across entire income spectrum, there is, on average, an approx 20-percentage-points boost in homeownership rates for black & white married households (compared to non-married households) when comparing those of similar income level: @AEI @FamStudies ifstudies.org/blog/the-benef…
3. “Marriage acts as backstop against a distressed home sale because presence of a potential 2 wage earner gives households an additional buffer to weather economic, family, health setbacks. Being able to weather life’s trials tribulations is key to generational wealth building.”
Read 6 tweets
Jan 17
1. “Young and middle-aged American men are less likely to be working now than at any time in U.S. history.” @jtrothwell @Gallup has a new take on why this is happening. ifstudies.org/blog/scarred-b…
2. What @jtrothwell is trying to understand is this, the dramatic decline in male LFP since the 1960s:
3. He discounts theories from Left (trade/automation) and Right (Videogames/govt benefits) and fingers declining mental and physical health among men as a key factor: ifstudies.org/blog/scarred-b… @FamStudies
Read 5 tweets
Dec 27, 2022
1. Motherhood is a pathway to misery & immiseration. This is the message much of the ambient culture sends today, esp. since COVID. But is it true?

Actually, no.

@WendyRWang & I survey the data on happiness, loneliness & prosperity @TheAtlantic:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
2. Here's a sampling from the @nytimes, Bloomberg @business, and @Forbes of the negative messaging regarding motherhood and marriage that we've been fed of late:
3. But as "tough as motherhood was during COVID, mothers were both happier and more financially secure than childless women during the pandemic,” write @BradWilcoxIFS and @WendyRWang. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Read 10 tweets
Dec 26, 2022
Responding to @JillFilipovic’s assertion that stay-at-home moms are miserable (see below), @lymanstoneky crunched the numbers. He found:

“Survey evidence shows stay-at-home mothers are… just as happy as other mothers.”

It’s #5 @FamStudies for 2022.

ifstudies.org/blog/are-stay-… Image
“Stay-at-home moms had about the same likelihood of being ‘very happy’ as working married moms.” @lymanstoneky ifstudies.org/blog/are-stay-… @FamStudies Image
“Unemployment is associated with unhappiness [esp. for men], but being a stay-at-home parent (especially a stay-at-home mother) is not.” ifstudies.org/blog/are-stay-… Image
Read 4 tweets
Dec 14, 2022
Important debate @AEI:

Are men's economic fortunes falling (which helps to explain decline in marriage)?

Nick Eberstadt says "yes" pointing to rising # men not working (left figure)👇🏽

Scott Winship says "no" pointing to stagnant male wages (right figure)👇🏽

I'm w/ Nick. ImageImage
@swinshi offers his views on men and marriageability here: aei.org/research-produ…
Nick Eberstadt @AEI offers his views on men and work here: templetonpress.org/books/men-with…
Read 4 tweets

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