It's patently obvious that his understanding of macroeconomics lies somewhere in kiddy territory, but one would think that he could at least do a puff piece for nymag without embarrassing himself with factual errors. At least two howlers:
Poor people (measured by income) work less hard than rich people. Or at least work less hours in the marketplace, which is petty much the only thing you can measure. See, e.g. http://dipse.unicas.it/wb2008/abstra...Bilancini2.pdf or an of the half dozen other studies which find the same thing.
Same problem; higher income married people work more (both wives and husbands).
EDIT: link to said puff piece http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/...ss-gap-2012-1/
I’ve also seen statistics suggesting that higher-income people go to church more than people at the bottom, who are working very hard to get by and don’t have time for it.
Poor people (measured by income) work less hard than rich people. Or at least work less hours in the marketplace, which is petty much the only thing you can measure. See, e.g. http://dipse.unicas.it/wb2008/abstra...Bilancini2.pdf or an of the half dozen other studies which find the same thing.
So in lower-income brackets, both people have to work. It used to be that once women got married, they were basically out of the labor force.
Same problem; higher income married people work more (both wives and husbands).
EDIT: link to said puff piece http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/...ss-gap-2012-1/
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