Although Love has a “price elasticity of likmevest”; The economy does have an influence on our relationships. This way you can explain economically why fewer children are born in prosperous countries. You can observe that more “super couples” have emerged in recent years, but also that there is a surplus of highly educated single women in cities. At the fair you can see how the races of online dating are falling. And you can calculate that single people have relatively higher fixed costs than cohabiting couples.
In this episode we investigate the economy of marriage, relationships and family. We want to know if romance is a luxury product. And we dive into the history of Dutch love, where we discover how a changing economic position of women also changed marriage.
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- Presentation:
- Marike Stellinga & Maarten Schinkel
- Editors, Production & Montage:
- Jeanne Geerken
- Mixage:
- Audio chef
- Music:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Photography:
- Folkert Koelewijn
- Artwork:
- Yannick Mortier