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greenglasstree t1_j85rje8 wrote

Reply to comment by st4n13l in [OC] How likely are you to get divorced based on where you live? An interactive calculator by datawrestler

There is, because of the "grass is greener" effect.

In places where divorce is rare, married people are less likely to want divorce because the odds of finding someone to date after the divorce are slim.

In places where divorce is common, there is a large pool of divorced people whom you could potentially date if you choose to divorce.

So divorce causes more divorce.

You'd think that in places where divorce is rare, that the average marital satisfaction is low, because unhappy couples choose to stay married because of the dearth of options if they divorce. But in reality, in places where divorce is common, the average marital satisfaction is low, because married people see all sorts of divorced people every day, some of them being attractive individuals.

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st4n13l t1_j85yhk1 wrote

>In places where divorce is rare, married people are less likely to want divorce because the odds of finding someone to date after the divorce are slim.

>In places where divorce is common, there is a large pool of divorced people whom you could potentially date if you choose to divorce.

While that logically makes sense, do you know of any research that covers this specifically?

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greenglasstree t1_j864je1 wrote

I read it in an economics book. I don't remember the name of it.

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