Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2023-09-21
Books mentioned on 558. The Facts Are In: Two Parents Are Better Than One
In her new book The Two-Parent Privilege, the economist Melissa Kearney says it’s time for liberals to face the facts: U.S.
Stephen Dubner discussed Is Marriage for White People? by Ralph Richard Banks. Dylan Thuris discussed Everyday Utopia by Kristen Ghodsee and WALDEN TWO by B.F. SKINNER.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Is Marriage for White People?
Discussed“it's called is marriage for white people how the African-American marriage decline hurts everybody”
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Everyday Utopia
Discussed“she's an ethnographer and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an author of a new book called everyday Utopia with two thousand years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life”
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WALDEN TWO
Walden Two by B.F.
Discussed“Twin Oaks was started in 1967. by a group of people studying psychologist B.S Skinner's book Walden II”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Two-Parent Privilege
“her new book is called the two parent privilege how Americans stopped getting married and started falling behind”
Plugged The Two-Parent Privilege
“thanks also to Melissa Carney an economist at the University of Maryland and author of the new book The True parent privilege”