Richer States Have More Marriages. Georgia….Not So Much
Monday, October 26th, 2015
Is Georgia a poorer state because there aren’t enough people married or is it the other way around? Or does marriage have nothing at all to do with the wealth of a state?
There’s a long history of argument among economists and social commenters about the idea that economics tends to shape society. And there is a school of thought — led by Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson, but subsequently followed up by other researchers — that the decline of manufacturing and the drop in incomes made many blue-collar and urban men less desirable as husbands.
