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Markets in everything: marital odds
The betting odds that Jennifer Lopez will divorce Marc Anthony before the end of the year: 3 to 1
The odds that Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher will marry before the end of the year: 1 to 2
The odds that Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz will marry before the end of the year: 5 to 1
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles? 8 to 1
The odds that David and Victoria Beckham will divorce have gone from 50 to 1 to 2 to 1 to 8 to 1 within the year.
Here is the full story (NYT, registration required). Here is one market site.
Addended Query: Would it help your marriage to have the odds publicly posted?
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 17, 2004 at 02:09 AM in Economics | Permalink
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