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To: mishedlo who wrote (52898)2/7/2006 2:51:25 AM
From: shades  Respond to of 110194
 
Legal abortion lowers the gains to marriage

Mish we can engineer societies that divide us or unite us in so many ways.

marginalrevolution.com

There were many social changes between 1970 and 1980 that could have affected the gains to marriage over the decade. A major change was the national legalization of abortion in 1973. Legal abortions were partially available in some states by 1970. If the partial legalization of abortions in a state reduced the gains to marriage in that state, we would expect to see lower gains to marriage in the early legalizing states relative to later legalizing states in 1970 but not in 1980. Moreover, this difference in difference in the gains to marriage should be concentrated among women of childbearing age. Using marriage rate regressions, Angrist and Evans (1999) showed that the marriage rates of young men and women were lower in early legalizing states relative to later legalizing states in the early 1970s. We show that the stimates of the number of marriages affected are sensitive to whether we use male or female marriage rate regressions. We extend the benchmark model to include whether an individual resided in a state that allowed legal abortions or not as part of the definition of the type of an individual. Methodologically, we extend the standard difference in differences estimator to estimate the effect of a policy change on bivariate distributions. Estimating this extended model, we show that the partial legalization of abortion in some states can explain up to 20 percent of the drop in the gains to marriage among young adults in the 1970s.

That is from "Who Marries Whom and Why," by Eugene Choo and Aloysius Chow, in the January 2006 Journal of Political Economy. Here is an earlier version of the paper.




To: mishedlo who wrote (52898)2/7/2006 3:18:54 AM
From: NOW  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 110194
 
"Para, nice writing. I appreciate some excellent insights in the above posts. You and many others, I suspect, note the incredible lack of energy at all levels of our culture concerning our current Flagship Cabal in DC and on the Hill. The DC pimps were taught that our masses of airhead voters were ready and willing goats for the slaughter. The think tank fools use their whore services to inform their corporate pimps how to test the vomit laced water produced by our undulating masses of airhead voters in terms of depth of delusion. Further, at the subconscious level, I suspect that our frightened and terrified voters are more afraid of our precision weapons, than any terror organization. Crap, my generation lived through the Cuban Missile Crises; we played baseball and only thought for about two seconds about the possibility of being nuked. Honestly, none of us, parents, grandparents, paid attention to dying…we were too busy living a damn simple life. You know, typewriters, TV’s with lousy pictures that skipped, gas was 19 cents a gallon. My point is that the bedwetter’s visualization of our awesome weapons of power, causes us to worship that power. Why? Because our bunch of Godless goats want to worship themselves, so they worship THEIR LEADERS as a vicarious extension of themselves, (this is critical for understanding). Further, this worship of deceit is an extension what our idiots do in front of the TV or in front of the movie. They vicariously are worshiping themselves; they emulate what they see on the screen. And the stupid leaders do the same. Now this flaw is truly Orwellian feet of clay. Do you see?

Again, after considerable study, there is simply no possibility that pre-Civil War Americans would have let our Corporations secure their current power over politics, family, military, economics, and ‘religion.’ That war killed off at 1 million of our very best. The country reeled in shock. The baby corporations, following the example set by the railroads, saw the opportunity to attack. First was the ruling that allowed corps legal person status. The death blow was the ruling that allowed the corporations to buy stock in corporations outside of the charter state, and later that extended to other countries.

Yes, God Himself has allowed the social forces to build this Flagship of Evil. Don’t blame Bush personally; Clinton paved the way when he bombed the crap out of Yugoslavia, (precision weapons, DP). Big Bush did the same in the first Iraq pillage, (precision weapons, Depleted uranium ). Ronnie got his ass kicked in Somalia and Lebanon, but he got the corporate ball steaming with all the high tech stuff that we have today. My point is that both parties are one: they have the same corporate bosses and the very same social forces have shaped their mental boundaries just has our airhead voters walk about with clay-hardened brains. It could have been Gore in the Bush seat today, doing the same exact policies. Why? Because this mess transcends mere personalities. It is the direct result of decades of social construction of institutions friendly to our Corporate Gods of Power and Greed. And these 'institutions' spew delusions for purposes of power and control: a 'pacification.' May God have mercy.

Posted by scout at February 6, 2006 04:54 PM "