Archbridge Institute Director of Programs Ben Wilterdink talks with Kay Hymowitz, the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Kay writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty, and cultural change in America. Kay is the author of numerous books including Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys (2011) and Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age (2006). She has also appeared often in popular media including in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and many others. Kay discusses how the attainment of higher education has become the most significant dividing line in American society and the consequences of the “college for all” mentality that has dominated the past several decades. The discussion also includes how this cultural default has affected status, trends in marriage, and a few ways in which we might begin to turn the tide.
Discussion Links:
Kay’s latest article on CityJournal
An interview on the devaluation of higher education with Kay Hymowitz
Kay’s testimony to the Joint Economic Committee
Dr. James Heckman talks economic mobility and what can be learned from Denmark on Econtalk
Full Study, Lessons for Americans from Denmark about inequality and social mobility
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren on Neighborhood Effects
Burning Glass study on credential inflation
Institute for Family Studies: Better-Educated Women Still Prefer Higher-Earning Husbands
Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game
Scott Winship on Disability Insurance and Labor Force Participation
Kay Hymowitz on why the new child tax credit won’t live up to the hype
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