Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Assessing Your Divorce Risk - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

Assessing Your Divorce Risk - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
What are the odds of your marriage ending in divorce?

This is a risk with some pretty important consequences, but chances are, you don’t have the foggiest idea on how to quantify it. Until now.

My favorite economist (and my significant other), Betsey Stevenson, has put together a neat online widget for the folks at Divorce360.com. The widget crunches recent marital history data to assess your chances of getting divorced, and it does this by taking account of some very simple demographics. Learn your divorce risk here.