The Economics of Hypergamy in Norway

ABSTRACT
Partner selection is a vital feature of human behavior with important
consequences for individuals, families, and society. We use the term
hypergamy to describe a phenomenon whereby there is a tendency for
husbands to be of higher rank within the male earnings capacity distribution than their wives are within the female distribution. Such patterns are difficult to verify empirically because earnings are both a cause and an effect of the mating process.

Using parental earnings rank as a predetermined measure of earnings capacity to solve the simultaneity problem, we show that hypergamy is an important feature of todays mating patterns in one of the most gender-equal societies in the world, namely Norway. We argue that through its influence on household specialization, hypergamy may explain parts of the remaining gender wage gap.

Even when they can make the same money, they still prefer someone richer.

http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/1/260.full.pdf+html

#WaterIsWet.

3 thoughts on “The Economics of Hypergamy in Norway”

  1. WIA:

    Ah yes, but let’s see how to get around, mitigate or take advantage of Hypergamy.

    Make more money? Gain more status? Looks max?

    Perhaps. Or you can have her work regularly and you work for God (the ultimate Alpha Male), which I call God Game.

    No different than a pastor or king would do.

    Here is another example of how God Game looks in practice over in Israel:

    “Ultra-Orthodox women have a unique position compared with matriarchs of other two-parent families. In Israel, they have traditionally been deferential to their husbands, but also the main breadwinners.

    Haredi culture honors men who dedicate their lives to learning Torah above all else, so that places pressure on women to be the sole working parent. This means that the women are often responsible for both working and raising their families.”

    “For ultra-Orthodox women, working so their husbands can learn full-time is a status symbol.”

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-ultra-orthodox-women-bring-home-the-bacon-dont-say-the-f-word/

    Another good article:

    The More Haredi Women Work, the More Men Are Encouraged Not to – Israel News – Haaretz.com
    https://archive.ph/IObIX#selection-433.0-437.162

    So, if you can have a group dynamic to generate status chasing and where the man eats from her labor (that she willingly offers) then effectively she is Beta Buxx and you don’t have to worry about traffic tickets. Of course, the flesh is weak, so I am not saying some clever Jewish PUA haven’t figured out how to exploit the angles and read the Torah with your woman/women (lol).

    I have yet to implement God Game in practice, but I am thinking of trying this on older chicks via infield screen-out style questions. Obviously positioning myself as the seductive alternative of the emasculated feminized beta males in the church (shouts out Dalrock).

    The main reason I have yet to try this, is that if God Game isn’t authentic then maybe a tremendous amount of negative energy generated around my persona. So, it would seem some Game is too advanced or dangerous and meant to be left alone if one is a poser.

    What’s left to do then to combat hypergamy?

    – Keep externals up (so you don’t worry about her hypergamy, she has to worry about yours)
    – Have a real life mission. Something you focus on that is greater and outside of her
    – Dread game
    – Keep her laboring inside the relationship with my End Game framework
    – Read the Bible with her good
    – Never follow the 50/50 relationship model
    – Be her emotional rock
    -Maintain a higher status that offsets her looks/ money to keep the balance of power in the man’s favor
    – Keep separate bank accounts and own the title to your primary residence. If she ever “stays” with you, not “live,” she has to know she can be kicked out anytime.

    Peace

  2. WIA:

    I love the Beta Buxx Concluding Remarks:

    “In addition, as pointed out by Siow (1998) in relation to the fact that women are fertile for a shorter period of their lives than men, the mechanisms that causes hypergamy in the first place—the competition for female partners—gives men an extra incentive to invest in future earnings potential, similar to the effect that arises in marriage markets with unbalanced sex ratios.”

    Not a whisper about dual mating strategies or incentives for men to invest in the non-monetary strategies of PU Artistry or Game.

    Peace

  3. WIA:

    This research report (and others that conclude the same) is a swipe against ideology of Blank Slatism, but still an endorsement of the Blue Pill.

    Rollo wrote before about the Blank Slate ideology:

    https://therationalmale.com/2019/07/26/heirs-of-the-blank-slate/comment-page-2/#comments

    For the last few decades, the Blank State ideology has negatively influenced how “we” as in society thinks about human sexuality, one in which we’ve simply lost touch with biological realities. Downstream impacts mean a demonization of heterosexuality.

    And of course, the Red Pill is a rejection of the Blank State ideology. But is mere rejection enough? I say no, it’s not enough to be Red Pilled only, which fundamentally means awareness of biological differences between the sexes especially in the context of a gynocentric culture.

    Let’s touch on what the Red Pill is and does.

    The Red Pill enables a man to:

    1. Supposedly give men the most objective truth about gender dynamics, and allowing to do what they will with it.
    2. Become to best versions of themselves.
    3. Not let women friendzone them.
    4. Not get used for free attention and validation.
    5. Set boundaries and not let women disrespect them and embarrass them
    6. Provide a reason to hit the gym for looksmaxxing.
    7. Be accountable for their own mentality and failures.
    8. Sleep with unlimited women at their level of his SMV.

    The Red Pill calls out corporate and feminism but doesn’t directly say how the man is supposed to supplant her “corporate husband” as her “life manager” and that he is supposed to be at the top of her mental hierarchy not just be an Alpha Male.

    What about the woman? What is she supposed to do and how are the Red Pilled men to lead, facilitate and manage her work inside the relationship? The Red Pill answer: crickets.

    Do as Rollo advocates and Spin Plates into oblivion. Misery loves company, so a man just gets validated by other sore losers in the dating market and gets trapped on the hedonic treadmill.

    Likewise, the Red Pill doesn’t say the woman has any responsibilities and that she supposed to significantly contribute her labor and mental to the relationship, just like she labors heavily for her studies and corporate America.

    In a previous blog post you conclude the same about the importance of her working inside the relationship: “[I]f she wants those feelings, she has to work for them, because just her being there, just her giving sex is NOT enough.”

    http://www.westindianarchie.com/keeping-her-happy/

    Of course, the goal should not be her happiness, but contentment, with some excitement and preoccupation with the goals you two have established.

    The Red Pill philosophy refuses to conclude and state that a woman is to be managed in the relationship utilizing using Game for your benefit, hers and society.

    Application and end goals is the point.

    Take this article for example: The writers conclude that there are statistically significant biological and behavioral differences between men and women that affect behavior manifested as Hypergamy, but the “solution” (application) is a Blue Pill one.

    The Red Pill philosophy doesn’t have real world LTR so offer as rebuttals. So now men are left to scratch their heads on how a Red Pill infused Mid & LTR looks and operates comparative to a Blue Pill one and as a result loses not just the PR battle, but the whole plot.

    Now, Game in of itself, although very effective, still has no logical end goal or philosophical resolution. Game for what ends is ultimately the question? Get laid, get paid, then what, what exactly did you build? and how long do one play the Game? Same outcome as the Red Pill, get trapped on the hedonic treadmill.

    In that same blog post you conclude the same, “What game hasn’t answered sufficiently in my opinion – is what to do to make something work long term. ”

    http://www.westindianarchie.com/keeping-her-happy/

    So, given these shortcomings with both Game and the Red Pill, leaving men rudderless either inside of relationship that is ready to implode or trapped on the hedonic treadmill the new equation should look something like this:

    Game (Seduction Skills + PUA Skills) x Portions of the Standard Red Pill Philosophy X Realization that the Woman needs to Be Led and Managed = Red Pill Armored Game (We’ll use that as a Place Holder Label, since I know you’re not the biggest fan of the Red Pill or ALFUH Malez).

    Red Pill Armored Game then is the combo Killer App of both Red Pill & Game.

    Red Pill Armored Game can be defined:

    1. As a set of tools for facilitating short term sexual relationships within the context of the the inherent biological differences of men and women.

    2. Providing additional tools for mid and long-term relationships that aid men in directly leading & managing their woman/women within the context of the inherent biological differences of men and women.

    3. Providing mate selection tools for prospecting and selecting women that willingly allow the man to be a patriarch in the relationship where both contribute sustainably to mutual and separate tangible relationship and life goals despite a gynocentric culture.

    4. Not automatically concluding that spinning plates is the ultimate solution for every man.

    That’s all I have for now.

    Peace.

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