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> One of the single interventions that could do the most to improve global welfare would be to improve the efficiency of the partner/marriage matching ecosystem

• aabhay 7y ago
  Agreed. This seems like a true ‘first world problem’.
  • icebraining 7y ago
    In what sense?
• harimau777 7y ago
  https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Land-Single-Disorder-Frontier/dp/0674278712 https://www.amazon.com/Violent-Land-Single-Disorder-Frontier... https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/103/36/13271.full.pdf https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/103/36/13271.full.pdf This one seems a little odd, but I included it for completeness. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022002715603102 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220027156031...
• SkyBelow 7y ago
  From what I recall having read, there are health improvements, financial improvements, having two parents is much better for raising children (from what I recall this is independent of the gender of the two parents), and there are larger systematic issues when significant portions of the population have difficulty finding a relationship (look at the purposed roles polygamy plays in destabilizing the Middle East or the social costs of China's one child policy that strongly influence people to have a single boy now that a few decades have passed).