Blog: The Sly Oyster

Freakonomics looks, ever so slightly , at the price of marriage. It's decrease with the dismissal of syphallitic blood tests have led to a 6% increase in marriages since 1980. And yet, it's no secret that divorce rates are up (due to any number of factors but mostly to the lack of stigma surrounding divorce now). Although, they aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be. "A very neat new study allows one to use the differential timing of the repeal of blood-test laws to infer what the [...]