{"id":4095,"date":"2010-05-09T02:03:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T07:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2010-05-09T02:03:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T07:03:48","slug":"repost-marginal-revolution-what-has-happened-to-surprise-marriage-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/09\/repost-marginal-revolution-what-has-happened-to-surprise-marriage-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: Marginal Revolution: What has happened to surprise marriage proposals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe most likely ones to accept such proposals are\u00a0women who  are\u00a0unsure of their &#8220;quality,&#8221; either on the mating market or in  unmarried life.\u00a0 Accepting the proposal takes on one kind of risk but  relieves the woman of another.<br \/>\nOverall it seems that women are today more certain about the utility  value of their alternatives to a surprise marriage proposal and that  means they turn them down.\u00a0\u00a0The proposals may seem like harmless &#8220;cheap  talk&#8221; (propose to lots of women above your station in life and thus the  custom persists, even if it rarely succeeds), but Google-savvy,  credential-savvy\u00a0women can evaluate men better than ever before and the  lower status\u00a0guys don&#8217;t\u00a0get close enough to them to try a shock  proposal, much less make it stick.<br \/>\nIs it a prediction that rapid, surprise proposals are more common in  societies where male high achievers are hard to identify in advance?\u00a0  How important is inequality of income and volatility\/uncertainty of  income?<br \/>\nPerhaps\u00a0for aesthetic reasons, I find the decline of the surprise  proposal\u00a0slightly sad (though in part reflective of some positive  societal developments), and I am pleased to reaffirm\u00a0that I do not  believe in the consultative approach.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2010\/05\/silly-claims-about-bargaining-theory-1.html\">Marginal Revolution: What has happened to surprise marriage proposals?<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most likely ones to accept such proposals are\u00a0women who are\u00a0unsure of their &#8220;quality,&#8221; either on the mating market or in unmarried life.\u00a0 Accepting the proposal takes on one kind of risk but relieves the woman of another. Overall it seems that women are today more certain about the utility value of their alternatives to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/09\/repost-marginal-revolution-what-has-happened-to-surprise-marriage-proposals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: Marginal Revolution: What has happened to surprise marriage proposals?&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","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=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}