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Assorted links
1. What is up with SCHIP?, and a response by Jason Furman.
2. The economics of dating and gift-giving: "If I bought my wife the complete DVD set of Battlestar Galactica, she would suspect me of selfish behavior rather than dedication to her, even if she grew to love the show." Which she hasn't.
4. The marriage market, simply explained, via Megan McArdle.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on October 4, 2007 at 05:53 PM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
2 points:
The 1st season Simpsons episode where Homer gives Marge a bowling ball inscribed with his name, nearly driving her into the
arms of a smarmy faux-French bowling instructor voiced by Albert Brooks is one of the all-time-best. It's in my top two, along
with the Marge v. Itchy and Scratch episode.
Real men don't economize hand-motion. We use our feet and thus economize time, not having to wash our hands.
Posted by: Different Jeff at Oct 4, 2007 6:17:17 PM
re: marriage market: I've tried to rank the different worlds women face.
Posted by: David Zetland at Oct 5, 2007 3:56:11 AM
I'll bet #3 probably is true, though the 2:1 earning ratio seems pretty high.
Though I am predisposed to believing any narrative that reminds us of our monkeyhood.
Posted by: Different Jeff at Oct 5, 2007 4:45:01 AM
I wonder if Ms. Craigslist isn't finding that very high income earners care a whole lot less about signaling their wealth via a hot wife and are picking one based on other qualities (that she presumably lacks).
Posted by: nelsonal at Oct 5, 2007 10:57:37 AM
#3, I am curious about the average earning of those girls on pills. They essentially pegged their currency (of charm), unlike the other girls who allow their currency to free float. I wonder which policy yields better overall earning.
Posted by: Yan Li at Oct 5, 2007 12:19:00 PM
I have a theory that urban people marry less and have fewer children because they are more distracted by better appearing alternatives and so set their sights to high. Particularly women are attracted to the leader of the pack in urban areas the packs are bigger.
Posted by: Floccina at Oct 5, 2007 5:28:23 PM
A friend that's a dancer/dj/bartender uses those pheromone perfumes. She says the female pheromones help her with tips when she's dancing. She uses male pheromones when bartending because that stops the guys from groping and flirting with her.
She mixed up and wore the female pheromones when she was bartending and she had a horrible, grab-assy night.
Posted by: Xmas at Oct 6, 2007 10:47:54 AM
Blessedly, that post doesn't seem to involve Megan McArdle at all. Is there an error in the link?
Posted by: Arr-squared at Oct 6, 2007 5:59:59 PM
Posted by: 鑽石 at Apr 2, 2008 10:19:40 PM
