For Richer or Poorer
Daniel Stone, National Geographic, Dec 13, 2015
accessed Jan 18, 2016
● An Emory University survey of heterosexual adults found men who spent more than $2,000 on a diamond ring were more likely to end up divorced than grooms who spent less.男人化2,000美元買鑽戒的比化的少買婚戒更容易離婚，根據美國艾莫理大學一項研究。And couples who had big-money nuptials (over $20,000) were three and a half times as likely to report shorter marriages. 婚禮化大錢(2萬美金以上)的夫妻離婚機率高於其他3.5倍。
“A diamond is forever,” De Beers jewelers declared in 1947. Millions of people were sold—on both the diamonds and the connection between lavish wedding sand lasting marriages. Now a pair of economists have found evidence that the opposite is true. An Emory University survey of heterosexual adults found that men who spent more than $2,000 on a ring were more likely to end up divorced than grooms who spent less. And couples who had big-money nuptials (over$20,000) were three and a half times as likely to report shorter marriages. Burdensome wedding debt may be one source of marriage stress, says Emory’s Hugo Mialon. Also, the types of couples who have thrifty nuptials may just be better matched and thus less divorce prone, he says. Something else the survey associated with lasting unions? A honeymoon, no matter the cost. —Daniel Stone
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