George Hahn
Appearances
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: DOGE: What Can Be Done?
Das Leben ist so reich.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: DOGE: What Can Be Done?
It might be enticing to try and sleep through the next four years, but if you're wondering how to survive a second Trump term while staying fully conscious, Pod Save America is here to help you process what's happening now and what comes next. Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, John Lovett, Tommy Vietor, John Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer wade hip-deep
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: DOGE: What Can Be Done?
into the week's political news and fish out some political analysis you can trust. Yes, Tommy's shoes get ruined. Yes, he'll do it again tomorrow because the endeavor is worth it and so is your sanity. Tune into Pod Save America wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube. I'm Scott Galloway and this is No Mercy, No Malice. We are in the midst, in my view, of a digital coup of the U.S.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: DOGE: What Can Be Done?
government. Ich habe meine gesamte Karriere gezwungen, die Unterschiede zwischen richtig und effektiv zu verstehen.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
This post was written by Richard Reeves. A dramatic reversal has taken place on college campuses. Once male-dominated, they are now populated largely by women. In the early 1970s, about three in five students were men. Now it is the other way around. There are 2.5 million fewer male than female undergraduates. There is an even bigger gender gap in master's degrees. Does this matter?
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
After all, the massive educational advance of women and girls is rightly seen as a cause for celebration rather than lamentation. Given that men still out-earn women, there's an argument to be made that women need to out-learn men, just to keep up in the labor market. I think it does matter. For one thing, it highlights how the K-12 educational system fails boys.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Kudos to those governors like Wes Moore in Maryland and Spencer Cox in Utah, who have noticed. Even when men do enroll in college, they're much less likely to get a degree. Too much male talent is being left on the table. This is why 30 or so institutions have already joined a new initiative I'm helping lead. The Higher Education Male Achievement Collaborative.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
But there is one thing we can stop worrying about. That the college gender gap is reducing marriage rates. This is a common concern and for good reason. There is pretty strong evidence for what anthropologists call female hypergamy, which is a fancy way of saying that women typically want to marry men of at least equal or preferably higher status.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
The fear is that with so many more college educated women than men, marriage rates will plummet. I've always been skeptical of this argument. For one thing, women overtook men in higher education back in the 1980s. So if marriage rates among women with a college degree were going to fall, they'd have done so by now, and they haven't.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
There is also some evidence from European countries that hypergamy declines as gender equality increases. Because this is an empirical question, I commissioned an empirical study. The resulting paper, by Clara Chambers, Benjamin Goldman and Joseph Winkelmann, uses data from Opportunity Insights, a team of researchers and policy analysts at Harvard, led by economist Raj Chetty.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Marriage rates among college-educated women have been rock steady at around 70% for decades, at least since World War II. As the authors of the study write for AIBM, quote, Unquote. Das einfache Mathematik bedeutet, dass einige Frauen mit Hochschulabschlägen Männer ohne Hochschulabschläge verheiraten müssen. Das ist genau das, was das Buch findet.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Eine in fünf hochschulabschlänglichen Frauen verheiraten einen Mann ohne vierjähriges Abstand. Was mehr überraschend ist, ist, dass dies immer der Fall war, lange bevor das große Bildungsübertragung. College-educated women born in 1950 were as likely as those born in 1980 to marry a man without a degree.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Women with college degrees continue to marry at high rates in part because of the continued willingness among one-fifth of them to marry down in terms of education. This suggests that a combination of female hypergamy and a growing gender gap in education is not having a negative impact on marriage rates. Of course, there are still many unanswered questions.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Maybe some of the 30% of those women with a BA but no wedding ring would be more inclined to marry if there were more college-educated men around. Die Stabilität der Beziehungstrende zeigt jedoch nicht. Es sieht so aus, als würden sie sich nicht mehr verheiratet. In den interessantesten Paaren aus der kulturellen Perspektive hat die Frau mehr Bildung als der Mann.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Auf den ersten Blick ist das die ganze Idee von Hypergamy. Aber natürlich ist Bildung nur ein Marker von Beziehungsfähigkeit und Status. Es scheint, dass Geld auch sehr wichtig ist. Männer, die eine berufliche Frau haben, auch wenn sie keine BA haben, in anderen Worten, Männer, die in beruflichen Terminen verheiratet sind, machen viel mehr Geld als andere Männer mit ähnlichen Bildungsleveln.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Von denen, die 1980 geboren wurden, machen Männer, die verheiratet sind, 68.000 Dollar pro Jahr, verglichen mit den 46.000 Dollar pro Jahr, die Männer, die entweder eine Frau verheiratet haben ohne Degret oder überhaupt nicht verheiratet haben. The earnings premium among men who marry up educationally has gotten bigger over time.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
This shows that women with a degree are willing to marry men without one, so long as they're making decent money. Women might marry down in terms of education, but not in terms of earnings. The good news here is that economically viable men have decent marriage prospects and that women with degrees can find a good man.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
The bad news is that men doing badly in the labor market are likely to struggle in the marriage market too. The paper finds that in areas where working class men are doing better, marriage rates go up, cutting the marital class gap in half. making men more economically viable, to use one of Scott's favorite terms, turns out to be the key to improving marital prospects.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
There's a corrosive downward spiral at work right now. As the economic prospects of men without a college degree decline, marriage rates fall. That leaves millions more men and women without a partner to share the responsibilities and benefits of family life. In other work by AIBM, we show that half of men without a college degree, aged 30 to 50, now live in a household without children.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Without the positive pressures that come from being a father and husband, men are even less likely to really go for it on the work front. They are more likely to be unemployed. They become more vulnerable to addiction, more socially isolated. All of which makes them less attractive as potential spouses. Boys raised in single mother households then struggle in school and in life.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
And they have difficulty finding a mate and forming a family too. And so the cycle turns. The economic struggles of boys and men become entrenched across generations. It's not often enough stressed that the class gap in marriage is not only a consequence of economic inequality, but also a cause of it.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Pooling incomes into a single household is obviously optimal, but from an economic perspective, especially for those with the lowest incomes, who are now the least likely to marry. Some scholars suggest that the class gap in marriage can explain much of the decline in social mobility in recent decades.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Concerns about marriage should then be focused on men and women with less educational attainment and or worsening economic outcomes. The problem is not that your daughter graduating from Amherst or Berkeley won't find a man good enough for her. The problem is that a woman in Appalachia or the Bronx won't find a man she sees as worth marrying. The best pro-marriage, anti-poverty strategy is simple.
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
No Mercy / No Malice: Marrying Up and Marrying Down
Improve the economic prospects of working class and lower income men. Einfach bedeutet nicht einfach, natürlich. Massive Investitionen in Bildung und Training sind notwendig, sowie mehr Spende auf Infrastruktur, städtebasierte Policies, um den niedrigsten Städten zu helfen und viel mehr. Aber es ist klar, wo zu beginnen. Mit den Jungs und Männern.