More for Moynihan

Somewhere the shade of Patrick Moynihan must be saying, “I told you so!” Moynihan was pilloried as a racist troglodyte when he warned in 1965 that the disintegration of black family life was a portent of catastrophe. But the evidence continues to mount showing that Moynihan’s warning was fully warranted. The latest evidence comes from […]

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Redeeming Gender Studies

The myth of the glass ceiling continues to be debunked. Challenging the presumption that women are underrepresented in high-status jobs because of discrimination, economists at Stanford University and the University of Pittsburgh offer empirical evidence for the more plausible explanation that the two sexes respond differently to competitive environments. Muriel Niederle and Lise Versterlund conducted […]

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Better Than Therapy?

Researchers have understood for years that marriage improves mental health. A new study, however, finds that matrimony delivers substantive psychological benefits even to those who enter marriage under the cloud of depression. Conductedby sociologists at the Ohio State University, this study clarifies the favorable psychological effects of marriage. To be sure, the authors began their […]

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