In other words, less - educated women are punting marriage because they have no reason to get married» and they have no reason to get married because they lack the adequate time and resources to enjoy
the hedonic marriage.
Women with less education, he explains, «likely have the least to gain from modern
hedonic marriage» because they have the least capacity for consumption.
Not exact matches
Marriage is not to be undertaken simply as a
hedonic exercise to increase individual pleasure, without the sense of mutual accountability to one another, yet through this accountability the pleasing of one another is increased.8
Wolfers suggests we now have a new
marriage model, the «
hedonic» model.
Hedonic adaptation helps to explain why even changes in major life circumstances — such as income,
marriage, physical health and where we live — do so little to boost our overall happiness.