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Causality dilemma? People who get married young are different from those getting married later. The age at which people get married is more a reflection of a li
by troebr 14y ago
Causality dilemma? People who get married young are different from those getting married later. The age at which people get married is more a reflection of a life style, than what drives a particular life style; which is what this article suggests.
- jessriedel 14y agoHere's libertarian economist Bryan Caplan on the difficulty in disputing the causal relationship between marriage and success. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/03/22_short_argume.html http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/03/22_short_argume.... He doesn't talk about the timing per se, but I think a lot of the same arguments apply. Certainty, if you believe that marriage causes success, it's not that great a leap to think that earlier marriage causes more success earlier (with the obvious caveats about getting married when you're 12.)