{"id":2443,"date":"2009-12-08T05:59:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T10:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2009-12-08T05:59:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T10:59:53","slug":"rotd-do-men-hurt-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/rotd-do-men-hurt-more\/","title":{"rendered":"ROTD: Do Men Hurt More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s consider these last two arguments.  We all know that women tend to be more expressive about their complaints \u2013 you can\u2019t beat \u2018em for wailing and gnashing of teeth.  But the fact that men act more stoic and complain less doesn\u2019t mean they hurt less.  To economists, the relevant standard is willingness to pay, and by this standard new results suggest men hurt more from most harms:<br \/>\n<strong>What\u2019s a marriage worth? To an Aussie male, about $32,000. That\u2019s the lump sum Professor Paul Frijters says the man would need to receive out of the blue to make him as happy as his marriage will over his lifetime. An Aussie woman would need much less, about $16,000.<\/strong> But when it comes to divorce, the Aussie male will be so devastated it would be as if he had lost $110,000. An Aussie woman would be less traumatised, feeling as if she had lost only $9000. \u2026  The lifetime boost to happiness that flows from a birth \u2013 for the mother around $8700, for the father $32,600. \u2026  The death of a spouse or child causes a woman $130,900 worth of grief. \u2026 It costs a man $627,300.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2009\/11\/do-men-hurt-more.html\">Overcoming Bias : Do Men Hurt More?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very interesting, must delve into this paper soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s consider these last two arguments. We all know that women tend to be more expressive about their complaints \u2013 you can\u2019t beat \u2018em for wailing and gnashing of teeth. But the fact that men act more stoic and complain less doesn\u2019t mean they hurt less. To economists, the relevant standard is willingness to pay, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/rotd-do-men-hurt-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ROTD: Do Men Hurt More?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-research","category-rotd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}