Archive: Geoffrey T. Sanzenbacher
What can go wrong? Being in a couple complicates your decision-making. From an economist’s perspective, one advantage of marriage is the financial benefits. Marriage allows risk sharing between partners (e.g., one partner can work more if the other loses their job) and allows couples to take advantage of returns to scale (i.e., it’s cheaper to…
What “unretirements” can tell us about the job market. These days, economists find themselves in a fog with respect to the labor market. First, there’s the fact that the monthly jobs report for September was released a month late and the October report was cancelled entirely. But, on top of that, the data that do…
