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Marriage is also becoming stratified by economic class. Poorer Americans used to marry at the same rate as wealthy Americans, but that changed in 2008. Since th
by ashtonkem 6y ago
Marriage is also becoming stratified by economic class. Poorer Americans used to marry at the same rate as wealthy Americans, but that changed in 2008. Since then poorer Americans are significantly less likely to get married than their richer peers.
- jeffreyrogers 6y agoIt's also interesting to see the fertility rate by income. Basically only bottom 20% and top 1% of US are above replacement rate. I can't find the graph I wanted to show this, but this one is pretty close: https://twitter.com/cschmert/status/993934031174725632 https://twitter.com/cschmert/status/993934031174725632
- woah 6y agoLots of people who are not in the top 1% and bottom 20% are in cities with severely constrained housing supply
- jeffreyrogers 6y agoYeah, that's probably a big part of it.