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Princeton's Marriage Market Theory Worked for Me

• graycat 14y ago
  "Optimal portfolio theory, applied to marital choice, suggests that better diversification can push households closer to the risk-return frontier." This is a call for bigamy? But with bigamy we tend to be short on women, that is, long on men, so that his call is for more wars, with only men soldiers, to kill off the excess men? While he is a Harvard prof and, thus, no doubt with a Ph.D., he concentrates on undergraduates marrying each other. But what about an undergraduate woman marrying a graduate student or young professor (who cares about money) man? Or a man recently graduated they meet at, say, some Princeton social function, who has a successful startup? So, he neglects graduate students and profs because he doesn't like them? And he assumes that a Princeton woman would look only for Princeton men and, thus, omits Columbia, Courant, Yale, Cornell, Brown, MIT, and Harvard? He really believes that only a Princeton man is good enough for a Princeton woman? After all, he's a Harvard prof!