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Is that really your takeaway from the paper? It depends on what the change is. Look more closely at the sixth column of Table 3 in your linked paper. If the
by spacehome 8y ago
Is that really your takeaway from the paper? It depends on what the change is. Look more closely at the sixth column of Table 3 in your linked paper. If the question is "Should I get engaged?" or "Should I have kids?", the facts are in, and the answer is no. You can't just say a blanket statement that all change is to the good.
- jmalicki 8y agoWith standard errors much larger than the estimate, I.e. indistinguishable from zero.
- gowld 8y agoMore importantly, asking someone if "having a child" was a good choice 2months and 6months after they decide, isn't measuring anything about having a child, which generally takes at lease 9 months of advance preparation. It takes years to measure the quality of a parenthood or a marriage.
- spacehome 8y agoThat's a fair point. But I don't think you can use this paper as evidence to make a big change when the issue is marriage or kids, as jedberg did.