Bryan Caplan - How Do We Fix The Housing Crisis?
The Curious Task
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What Is the Search for Success?
There is a lot of evidence that for men in particular, marriage leads to a large increase in earnings. And by the way, it seems like for women, marriage lead to somewhat lower earnings. I talk also quite a bit about the research on the so called success sequence a, which is really a great recipe for avoiding poverty. Step one, finished high school. Step two, work time. Step three, get married before you have kids. You've about a two % chance of being below Poverty Line. Those who are not doing it right do 98% better than those who don't follow this simple prescription. But then it does mean tt you eed to rethink everything you believe about
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