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78. Do Kids Cause Divorce?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Effects of Weight Loss Surgery on Divorce Rates

A study published that found adults who are not married and get weight loss surgery are more than twice as likely to get married within five years. A sort of different mechanism that's at play there. Similar thing could be true for the divorce channel. Knowing that the marriage was not going well and that they would probably want to go back on the dating market at some point, hard to know what drives what.

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