Links for 2011-04-18 [del.icio.us]

• At the Risk of Making Mark Krikorian and John Derbyshire’s Heads Explode… « The Enterprise Blog
  Hours throughout the world.
• Women Won’t Marry Down, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  As she points out, this serves to increase inequality. My guess is that it is a far more important driver of inequality than any government policy or lack thereof.
• Medicare by the Numbers | John Goodman’s Health Policy Blog | NCPA.org
  2. My Line Is Lower than Your Line. Despite the hysteria on the left about the Bowles/Simpson, Rivlin/Ryan and the Domenici/Rivlin plans, the ObamaCare Medicare cuts are much harsher than any of these proposals. And most critics of these entitlement reform plans were enthusiastic supporters of ObamaCare.
• School Vouchers Can Hurt as Well as Help « The Enterprise Blog
  Stating the standard white, middle class, qualm with vouchers.
• The Man Who Can’t Be Taxed at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
  Ms. Stevens’s great mistake is to confuse money with real resources. She thinks the government can somehow acquire real resources just by taking Mr. Kendrick’s money away, without realizing that the resources ultimately have to come from someplace. “Taxing the rich” cannot work unless you do it in a way that induces the rich to consume less.
• Will women marry down? | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
  As for education, the most common practice is for like to marry like, or “homogamy.” According to research by Christina Schwartz and Robert Mare, homogamy has been going up, especially among the college educated. Not so long ago, highly educated women were a spinster class; men with degrees looked for wives whose talents ran towards cooking the dinner roast and doing the children’s laundry, not writing briefs. No longer. Women with advanced degrees are now as likely to marry as their less-educated sisters (though they are less likely to have children) in large part because educated men are choosing them over secretaries or nurses. Today about 55% of married couples have the same educational level. To coin a mouthful of a phrase, homogamy is replacing hypergamy.

  Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/18/will-women-marry-down/#ixzz1Jv3f3ePJ

• Steve Sailer’s iSteve Blog: A prediction
  In 1974, Harvard political scientist James Q. Wilson published a little book called Thinking About Crime in which he said that the best way to fight crime is lock more criminals up for longer periods. You see, he explained, when they’re in prison, they can’t victimize people who aren’t in prison. This concept was very controversial at the time. Wilson’s plan to fight crime by locking up criminals would obviously inflict disparate impact discrimination upon minorities, and that was just inconceivable to most advanced thinkers in 1974.

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