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marginalrevolution.com - 11/30/2008
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Overcoming Bias:  Modern Depressions

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Modern Depressions
Overcoming Bias — ... from 1930 to 1935. ... Economic hardship ... tends to sap people's civic engagement, often permanently. ... Depression, unsurprisingly, is higher in economically distressed households; so is domestic violence. Suicide rates go up in tough times, marriage rates and birthrates go down. And while divorce rates usually rise in recessions, they dropped during the Great Depression, in part because unhappy couples found they simply couldn't afford separation. Hat tip to Tyler. 

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