By Ben Shabad, full-time graduate student and part-time cartoon-drawing person.
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About 18 percent of couple households are single-income. I wanted to know what the earner in these homes usually do.
Median income only tells you where the middle is. The distributions of income are a lot more interesting.
We know when people usually get married. We know who never marries. Finally, it’s time to look at the other side: divorce and remarriage.
In high school, we spend most of our days with friends and immediate family. But then we get jobs, start a family, retire, and there’s a shift in who we spend our days with.
