- Poorer Americans have more children than richer Americans but when the economy is weak the birth rate falls.
- Poorer Americans are fatter than richer Americans but when the economy is weak and people lose weight and BTW they get healthier (except the elderly who get less healthy in a recession).
- Poorer adult Americans are less likely to married than richer Americans but it is much cheaper to be married than single and the poor economy has reduced divorce.
- Poorer Americans commit more crimes than than richer Americans but when the economy is weak crime falls. Further crime does not pay.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Poverty Paradoxes
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Hi Floccina! These are great points; have you considered posting them on Bryan Caplan's blog? (I can't, I was blocked for posting to many links to other econ articles, can't be bothered getting another account, or dealing with Lauren Landsburg again.)
As you may know Caplan is planning a book on poverty in the US. Noah Smith had what appeared to be an epic counterexample to Caplan's theory that poor American's are responsible for their own poverty, in the form of the Japanese. And your post might just add grist to the mill.
Post a Comment