Home » Posts tagged 'economics'
Tag Archives: economics
A Shortage of Marriageable Men?

A recent study uses multiple imputation to develop an analysis that implies falling marriage rates to be a result of too few (economically) marriageable men. We discuss the idea that a “shortage of marriageable men” is a strong explanation of falling marriage rates.
Victoria Reyes is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. She recently published the widely acclaimed Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines with Stanford University Press.
Photo Credit
By LearningLark – https://www.flickr.com/photos/44282411@N04/6738328799/, CC BY 2.0, Link
Economists’ Influence (Elizabeth Berman)

The gang meet Elizabeth Popp-Berman (SUNY Albany), author of Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine, about her new work on the influence of economics thinking.