Weather Welfare Effects Marriages

Income maintenance experiments found that in seattle and denver, marriages broke up at a much higher rate when people were getting these payments. But they didn't in garry, indiana. People mistakenly believed that if they dissolved their marriages, they would lose payments, so they stayed together. The analogy to welfare is that welfare, like cigarette smoking, is addictive. And it's not a good thing in the long run. What seems like sufficient enticement to get off it may not be sufficient once you've ben addicted to it for all that time.